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Reuter: SLORC Seeks to Join ASEAN



Subject: Reuter:  SLORC Seeks to Join ASEAN by 1998

  SLORC Seeks to Join ASEAN by 1998

   BANGKOK, June 22 (Reuter) - Burma is seeking to become a full member of
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) within the next two
years, newspaper reports said on Saturday.
     The reports quoted Sukhum Rasmidatta, director-general of the Thai
Foreign Ministry's ASEAN Department, as saying on Friday the Burmese
government had reaffirmed it wanted to be an ASEAN observer this year and
had strongly indicated that it would seek ASEAN membership in 1998.
     It is the first time Rangoon has offered a timeframe for joining the
association, which groups Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
     Laos and Cambodia, which now hold observer status, have officially
informed the association they will seek membership next year.
     According to Sukhum, Burma will be officially welcomed as an observer
at a two-day ASEAN foreign ministers meeting in Jakarta starting on July
20.
  REUTER
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COMMENT
Why 1998 is a simple mathematics that the military government knows.
If you sum up 1998 until you get a single digit, it becomes 9, the odd
number Ne Win fonds of since 1962 which also sums to be 9.
KT
ISBDA