YANGON, July 19 Kyodo Myanmar's o...

YANGON, July 19 Kyodo

Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) onward Friday called on the ruling junta to set down into talks with the party aimed at solving the country's political and economic problems

Party vice chairman Tin Oo made the call in a statement he read revealed at the party's headquarters during a form to mark the country's 55th Martyrs' Day.

The statement eulogized efforts of fallen leaders in their contest for independence and appealed to the conduct for speedy dialogue and peaceful solution of point in disputes facing the country.

More than 300 tribe including NLD members, invited visitors diplomats and journalists attended the observance Party general secretary Aung San Suu Kyi was not past nor future but did not make a speech

In the morning the regulation held the official Martyrs' Day rite at the Martyrs' Mausoleum near the lower extremity of Shwedagon pagoda in central Yangon.

Martyr's Day marks the assassination of Suu Kyi's father, Aung San, and eight others forward July 19, 1947.

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