NLD to Discuss ‘Important’ Suu Kyi Proposals

The executive committee of the National League for Democracy (NLD) will meet on Monday to discuss “important” issues raised by Aung San Suu Kyi in a meeting with Nyan Win, the NLD spokesperson, on Wednesday.

Nyan Win, who also met with Suu Kyi on Monday, said she discussed certain issues during their private meeting. He declined to elaborate.

The NLD central executive committee will discuss the issues and probably issue a statement on Tuesday, Nyan Win said.

“The suggestions proposed by Suu Kyi are important because they are positive and profitable for the country,” he  said.

In other matters, he said Suu Kyi thanked veteran Burmese politicians, ethnic leaders, her NLD colleagues and her supporters who celebrated Burma’s National Day on Wednesday at NLD’s headquarters in Rangoon.

About 1,000 people attended the ceremony for the 89th National Day anniversary, which marks of the birth of Burma’s independence movement. 

The NLD released a statement on Wednesday calling for the release of Suu Kyi and Tin Oo, the NLD’s deputy chairman, and ethnic leaders such as Khun Htun Oo and Sai Nyunt Lwin.

The statement also urged the Burmese regime to release imprisoned activist leaders, monks and democracy supporters and demanded the regime allow the party to reopen it closed offices, and to allow ethnic political parties to register and freely conduct political campaigns.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday after a ministerial meeting at a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) in Singapore that the US would not impose any conditions on the Burmese regime to force democratic change, but that its sanctions would remain in place until significant progress had been made. 

“We would like to see countries individually and through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) reach out to the Burmese leadership, and to persuade them to start planning for free, fair and credible elections in 2010," Clinton said.

“Certainly, China has the opportunity to play a very positive role, as does Thailand, India and other Asean countries,” she said.