BANGKOK, March 30 Kyodo Thailand ...

BANGKOK, March 30 Kyodo

Thailand will legion two days of second-round international talks upon democratization in Myanmar on April 29-30 with the room for expectation that democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will quick be released, Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said Tuesday.

''I think the release of Aung San Suu Kyi is (likely)...the national convention for drafting a constitution and the release of Suu Kyi are likely to happen soon'' Surakiart said.

The minister said last week he reckon uponed the Myanmar junta to release Suu Kyi and assemble a national convention by the middle of this year.

Surakiart said officials from China, India, about countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, France, Germany, Austria and representatives from the Myanmar junta have agreed to attend the forum, dubbed ''Bangkok Process''

recently made known participants Bangladesh, Laos, Switzerland and Norway will also join.

The first Bangkok Proces in December last year was participated in by way of 12 countries, including Myanmar, moreover yielded no substantial results

The April forum aims to have Myanmar explain to the international community the progres of its plans for national reconciliation and transition to democracy since December, Surakiart said.

''I expectancy the Bangkok Process will be a push for Myanmar to announce the national (constitutional) convention,'' he said.

Myanmar announced during the last meeting that it planned to reconvene the national convention this year and would invite political parties, including Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, ethnic minorities, academics, bureaucrats, soldiers and farmers to join in drafting a novel constitution.

But it has proffered no date for calling the assign places tos together.

The junta called a general election more than a decade ago, unless then refused to vacate office when Suu Kyi's party won in a landslide through the whole extent of junta-supported candidates.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi has been detained since May last year following what the junta says were clashes between her supporters and pro-government demonstrators.

The members of ASEAN are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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