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Press Release of Myanmar Embassy (W



                              EMBASSY OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR
	 
                                           WASHINGTON,  DC
	

PRESS   RELEASE          14 / 98					24   September  1998
 


Citizens of Yangon Hold Mass Rally in Support of Peace and Stability 

The Local Business Community and Public Reject 
Confrontational Approach 
of Aung San Suu Kyi


 Over 20,000 local businessmen, entrepreneurs, merchants, traders, shopkeepers
and ordinary citizens rallied in Yangon today in support of the government's
efforts to promote peace and stability in the country.

The mass rally stressed that the business community can flourish only when
peace prevails and where the atmosphere is conducive to commerce. The citizens
expressed their wish to avert any crisis that could affect Myanmar's  economic
growth.

They rejected the confrontational approach of Aung San Suu Kyi which would
disturb the peace and  disrupt the economic life of the country.




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