Suu Kyi seeks ASEAN support<\/p>\n
BANGKOK (DPA): Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
\nhas appealed to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
\n(ASEAN) to support her party's call for the reconvening of the
\ncountry's parliament by Aug. 21, a news report said yesterday.<\/p>\n
"We would very much like the ASEAN countries to give their
\nfull support to our call for the convening of parliament in the
\nfull understanding that this call was not and is not a
\nconfrontational move, but a positive step towards the
\ndemocratization of Burma (Myanmar)," Suu Kyi said in a recent
\ninterview with the Alternate ASEAN public pressure group.<\/p>\n
The NLD, of which Suu Kyi is general secretary, won Myanmar's
\nMay 1990 general election by a landslide but has been blocked
\nfrom assuming political power by the country's military regime.<\/p>\n
Some ASEAN ministers and Myanmar's junta have described Suu
\nKyi's ultimatum as confrontational and expressed worries about
\nlooming tensions in Myanmar, which joined ASEAN a year ago.<\/p>",
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