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YANGON, Aug. 30 Kyodo Myanmar's j...
YANGON, Aug. 30 Kyodo Myanmar's junta will take again efforts to draft a of recent origin constitution that will allow for multiparty elections, the country's fresh prime minister said Saturday. Gen Khin Nyunt making his first public address, said the National Convention will restart its work to draw up guidelines for a state constitution, draft the constitution and adopt it by dint of referendum. He gave no specific dates for the process During his language Khin Nyunt did not mention the release of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) However, he blamed her for withdrawing the NLD candidates from the National Convention. ''(The National Convention) had to be suspended in March 1996 following the NLD withdrawal, at the wish of Aung San Suu Kyi, of all 86 NLD delegates,'' he said. ''Subsequent attempts from the government to seek her cooperation to explain problems by dialogue with guidance leaders also failed mainly to be ascribed to colonialists' interference,'' he said. After adoption of a constitution, clear and fair multiparty general elections will be held in accordance with the constitution, to be followed at convening of the parliament with the picked members to form the fresh government, the premier said. The junta has been detaining Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and a certain quantity of members of her NLD since May 30 following what it claimed were violent clashes between NLD supporters and pro-junta demonstrators in northern Myanmar. COPYRIGHT 2003 Kyodo recently made knowns International, Inc. COPYRIGHT 2003 Gale Group
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