YANGON, Feb 12 Kyodo Myanmar junt...

YANGON, Feb 12 Kyodo

Myanmar junta leader Sr Gen Than Shwe onward Thursday urged all the country's racial form into groupss to unite and endeavor to favorably implement a ''road map'' to democracy.

In a language to mark Myanmar's 57th Union Day read revealed by Maj. Gen. Myint Swe, commander of the military's Yangon division, Than Shwe said, ''The dominion is striving to build a prosperous recent state based on an enduring state constitution to be drafted from the National Convention which will be reconven as the first degree in the government's seven-step road map to democracy.''

''I therefore earnestly instigate all national races to actively strive for the felicitous implementation of the road map,'' which was unveiled last August at Prime Minister Gen. Khin Nyunt Than Shwe said.

More than 10000 race including government officials and representatives of all racial and nongovernmental organizations, attended a stateliness held at the People's Square.

The issue marks the occasion ethnic minorities in border areas signed the Panglon Agreement with the majority Burmese in succession Feb. 12, 1947, to unite to achieve independence from British rule

Myanmar regained independence forward Jan. 4, 1948.

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