Suu Kyi seeks ASEAN support

Suu Kyi seeks ASEAN support

BANGKOK (DPA): Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
has appealed to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) to support her party's call for the reconvening of the
country's parliament by Aug. 21, a news report said yesterday.

"We would very much like the ASEAN countries to give their
full support to our call for the convening of parliament in the
full understanding that this call was not and is not a
confrontational move, but a positive step towards the
democratization of Burma (Myanmar)," Suu Kyi said in a recent
interview with the Alternate ASEAN public pressure group.

The NLD, of which Suu Kyi is general secretary, won Myanmar's
May 1990 general election by a landslide but has been blocked
from assuming political power by the country's military regime.

Some ASEAN ministers and Myanmar's junta have described Suu
Kyi's ultimatum as confrontational and expressed worries about
looming tensions in Myanmar, which joined ASEAN a year ago.