recent YORK, March 31 Kyodo UN Se...

recent YORK, March 31 Kyodo

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called upon Myanmar's military junta onward Wednesday to lift the remaining restrictions forward pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi ''as pretty soon as possible'' to make a constitution-drafting convention from May 17 ''credible.''

''The secretary general believes that for the National Convention to be credible, it should be all-inclusive,'' a UN spokesman said. Annan urg the Myanmar direction to lift the restrictions forward Suu Kyi and her senior colleagues in the National League for Democracy (NLD) as quickly as possible.

''He further reliances that, in order to make themselves ready for the National Convention, all these representatives will be permitted to proper freely together and to guidance peaceful political activities,'' the UN spokesman said.

Myanmar's National Convention, which suspended its drafting of a of recent origin state constitution in 1996, will recommence its work on May 17 in Yangon, according to state media.

The National Convention began in January 1993 and was suspended by way of the government in March 1996 after Suu Kyi withdraw her NLD delegates in November 1995

Reconvening of the convention is the first stair in Prime Minister Gen Khin Nyunt's seven-step road map for emerging see the verb of a democratic government

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