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NGUB Statement On SPDC Reaction and



<center><bigger>NCUB Statement on SPDC's Reaction towards NLD's  Plan for
Convening Parliament

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1. At the time of seizure of power by the SLORC military clique, there
was no constitutional law in existence. The political parties, members of
parliament-elect and the voters trusted and accepted the SLORC for its
Announcement No. 1/88, promising to hold a democratic general and
multi-party election, and the Election Law, provided for by Decree
No.14/89, and cooperated willingly. A law accepted by the general masses
and receiving their cooperation is legitimate, and a law rejected by them
is an unjust and illegitimate law. Therefore, the Election Law is still
valid, and no announcement, decree nor order shall supercede it.

2. The SLORC itself, on several occasions, has said that the 1990
election was free and fair. Several countries and the people of Burma
have accepted it as free and fair. 

3. According to international practices, or the two previous
Constitutions of Burma, the parliament must be convened within 60 days
after the general election. 

4. Though the NLD, with the mandate entrusted by the people, on several
occasions, called upon the SLORC/SPDC, which had supervised the election,
to convene the parliament, it still has been refusing to convene the
parliament, even though a period of more than 7 years has elapsed.  

5. The true owners of sovereign power are the people. Through the
election, the people have legally entrusted the NLD with it. Having that
mandate, it is entirely legal and correct for the NLD to convene the
parliament. As it is an undertaking in accordance with existing and valid
laws, there is no violation of any Burmese law.  

6. We believe that the meeting of U Aung Shwe, Chairman of the NLD, by
the SPDC on 18-8-98, was only one of the tactics of the SPDC intended to
slow down the momentum of the effort for convening the parliament.
Previously, for the sake of portraying them as dialogues, the SPDC
summoned members of the NLD it wanted to see, and let them go after
intimidation and politically insignificant talks.

7. If the SPDC military clique is sincere, it must immediately cease its
activities of persecution, limitations and obstruction against the NLD by
various means. In dialogue, the SPDC must talk with delegates, including
Daw Aung Sann Kyi, chosen by the NLD, on an equal basis. The subject of
any current talks should be about the convening of the parliament.


August 25, 1998                    

       


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