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.