BURMA PRESS SUMMARY
From the Rangoon "Working People's Daily"
Compiled for the Burma Studies Group by Hugh C. MacDougall
Published by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of
Illinois
Volume V, No. 12, December 1992
NATIONAL
CONVENTION
Working Committee Established
Preparations for the Convention
Warning from
NATIONAL
CONVENTION
Working
Committee Established
Dec. 1:
1. In exercise of the power conferred under
paragraph 6 of the State Law and Order Restoration Council Order No. (13/92),
the Convening Commission for the National Convention hereby forms the Working
Committee for the convening of the National Convention consisting of the
following persons and assigns responsibility thereto, in order that the work
for the convening of the National Convention be carried out systematically,
successfully and smoothly:-
Chairman: (i) U
Aung Toe (Chief Justice)
Vice Chairman: (ii) U Tha
Tun (Attorney General)
Members: (iii-xxiv) U Aung Myin (Justice, Supreme Court); U Maung Maung);
Gyi (Chairman, Public Services Selection and Training
Board); U Aung Khin Tint (Legal Adviser, SLORC); U Thein
Sein (Officer on Special Duty, SLORC); U Set Maung
(Legal Adviser, SLORC); U Maung Aung (Director General, Immigration and
Manpower Department); U Tin Htoo (Director General,
Department of Fine Arts); U Aung Kyi (Managing Director, Vehicles, Machinery
and Equipment Trading); U Tin Pe (Managing Director,
Motion Picture Enterprise); U Win Sein (Director
General, Information and Public Relations Department); U Aung Thein (Managing Director, Road Transport); U Tun Tin (Principal, Central Services Institute); U Aye Thwin (Rector, University for the Development of National
Races); U Myo Nyunt (Rector, University of Distance Education); Dr. Than Nyunt
(Pro-Rector, Institute of Economics); Dr. Thaung Myint (Professor, Mandalay Institute of Medicine); Dr. Tin
Aung Aye (Professor, Law Department, Yangon University); Daw Than (Ministry of
Education); U Myo Thant (Maung Su Shin) (Ministry of
Information); Daw Nan Noot (Ministry of Information);
U M Bu Nain (Ministry of Rail Transportation); U Labya Pan Aung (Yangon City Development Committee).
Secretary: (xxv) U Aye Maung (Director
General, Office of the Multi-Party Democracy General Election Commission).
Joint Secretary (1): (xxvi) U Thaung Nyunt (Adviser, Office of the Pyithu Hluttaw)
Joint Secretary (2): (xxvii) U Tin Hla (Adviser, SLORC).
2. The functions and duties of the Working
Committee for the convening of the National Convention are as follows:
(a) carrying out the
work of identifying representatives who are to attend the National Convention;
(b) publishing the
place, date, time and programme of the daily meetings of the Convention;
(c) making
arrangements for ushering the representatives attending the meeting of the
Convention, within the Meeting Hall;
(d) co-ordinating
and selecting the Panel of Chairmen to supervise the daily meetings of the
Convention;
(e) publishing from
time to time a list of the Panel of Chairmen who are to supervise the daily
meetings of the Convention;
(f) giving proper
decisions in respect of matters submitted from time to time by the Panel of
Chairmen for the systematic convening of the Convention;
(g) carrying out the
work of compiling and maintaining the discussions and records relating to the
meetings of the Convention;
(h) co-ordinating
with the Management Committee for the convening of the National Convention in
respect to the Press Release relating to the meetings of the Convention;
(i) submitting to the Convening Commission for the National
Convention the discussions of the representatives of the Convention, together
with a report of the progress of the work of the convening of the Convention.
3. The powers of the Working Committee for
the convening of the National Convention are as follows:
(a) supervising so
as to enable the discussion at the Convention to be within the framework of the
objectives mentioned in paragraph 4, sub-paragraph (b) of the State Law and
Order Restoration Council Order No. (13/92) dated
(b) determining the programmes
of the National Convention so as to enable the representatives of the National
Convention to submit conveniently their wishes, suggestions and proposals in
accordance with the procedures relating to the convening of the Convention, as
prescribed by the Convening Commission for the National Convention;
(c) supervising in
order to achieve the systematic and successful completion, in accordance with
the procedures relating to the convening of the Convention;
(d) co-ordinating
and obtainign the assistance and support as may be
necessary from the respective Government departments and organizations for the
success of the work of the Convention.
Sd/- Myo Nyunt
Major-General
Chairman
Convening Commission for the National
Convention
(WPD 12/2)
Preparations for the Convention
Dec. 2: Chairman of the Management Committee
for Convening the National Convention Inspector-General Brig-Gen. Tin Aye
inspected the National Convention Hall in the President's House compound on
Numerous articles throughout the rest of the
month reported preparations and inspections of preparations, including meetings
of the Convening Commission, erection of "agitational
billboards," etc.
Warning from
Dec. 21: Speaking to military officers in his
Command, Yangon Commander Maj-Gen. Myo Nyunt
"pointed out that the State formed various organizations to hold the
National Convention successfully and the day was drawing near. Some power-crazy
politicians and some who depended on foreign countries and selfish traders who
sought for their own benefit had ulterior motive for holding the National
Convention. With intention of disrupting the Convention, they co-operated with
above and underground destructive and disruptive elements and their activities
had been found out. In addition terrorist organizations in the remote border
areas were trying to disrupt the Convention and some foreign broadcasting
stations in collaboration with axe-handlers were spreading rumours."
(WPD 12/22)