Myanmar opposition demands parliame (r)

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Re: Myanmar opposition demands parliament be convened
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We welcome the above demands made by the NLD. Let's move forward 
together in re-building the nation from where it is now without having 
to pursue a confrontational politics between the SPDC and the NLD 
including the ethinic groups any further. We have a lot of cathing up to 
do with our asian neighbours. Let's give our next generations a chance 
to compete. 

We have got a lot of hard work to do in the area of education,health and 
re-building the economy. Most importantly an immediate measures to 
promote "character building" must be put in place to start with. 

They all must work together to build a nation free from corruption, 
neoptism and cronyism. 

(The country was stripped from its "Constitution" by the military regime 
in 1962 and again in 1988. There are ways to settle the problem of the 
"Constitution" peacefully after the parliament is
convened.)

May the peaceful settlements between the SPDC and the NLD including the 
ethnic forces come to Burma at last. All must work together for the sake 
of the country.

Together we can achieve.


Minn Kyaw Minn
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>Myanmar opposition demands parliament be convened 
>08:52 a.m. Jun 23, 1998 Eastern 
>By Aung Hla Tun 
>YANGON, June 23 (Reuters) - Myanmar's opposition National League for
>Democracy (NLD) on Tuesday launched an offensive to legitimise itself 
by
>sending a letter to the ruling military demanding that parliament be
>convened within two months. 

>Aung Shwe, NLD chairman, made the request in the letter to the ruling 
State
>Peace and Development Council (SPDC). The NLD won a landslide victory 
in
>the May 1990 election that was never recognised by the military. 
>``The authorities had organised free and fair multi-party democracy 
general
>elections on May 27, 1990,'' Aung Swe said in a letter to the SPDC's
>chairman Senior General Than Shwe. 
>Copies of the letter were handed out at the Yangon Foreign 
Correspondents
>Club. 
>``The result of election has been declared where the representative of
>people to the parliament had been elected,'' said the letter, dated 
June 23
>and signed by Aung Shwe. 
>``And I hereby call on the authorities in accordance with the 
resolution
>made by the NLD at its eighth (elections) anniversary ceremony, to 
convene
>the parliament of multi-parties elected within 60 days from now,'' the
>letter added. 
>Parliament should convene before August 2, it said. 
>The NLD move was seen as defying the SPDC, which has said parliament 
must
>not be convened until a new national constitution has been drafted. The
>government and some appointed representatives are in the process of
>drafting the new charter. 
>``The convening of parliament is impossible without a systematically
>drawn-up constitution,'' General David Abel, a minister in the SPDC 
office,
>was quoted as saying recently. 
>Myanmar's military government established a national convention 
comprising
>hand-picked delegates from across the nation in early 1993 to draft the 
new
>constitution. 
>But the convention has been in recess since late 1996. 
>``There is no time frame for drafting the constitution, but at least
>two-thirds of the new charter has been completed,'' Abel said. 
>Yangon-based political analysts said the NLD's move was aimed at
>legitimising itself and boosting sagging morale among its members 
because
>of a stalemate with the junta over political differences, including
>movement toward democracy and human rights abuses. 
>Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel laureate, had sought the convening of
>parliament late last month as the NLD held a celebration to mark the
>occasion of its 1990 election victory. 
>The NLD and the SPDC have failed to hold a dialogue since Suu Kyi was
>released from six years house arrest in mid-1995. The junta has 
declined to
>recognise Suu Kyi as the NLD representative at any dialogue. 
>
>
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