HANOI - South-east Asian leaders urged Myanmar to ensure its elections this year are fair and inclusive at a summit in Hanoi on Friday.
Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said at an Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) meeting that he had delivered the region's message directly to Myanmar's generals during a visit last week.
"We hope to see Myanmar implementing effectively the roadmap for peace ... and that the elections should be fair, democratic, with the participation of all parties," Mr Nguyen Tan Dung, the current Asean chair said.
Myanmar's elections will be the first in the military-run state for two decades, but the party of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called a boycott over rules that would have forced it to expel its leader if it wanted to participate.
Indonesia will chair Asean in 2011, swapping with Brunei as the venue of the group's meetings, because of a scheduling clash with its Apec host duties in 2013. AFP
Source :http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC100410-0000098/Asean-to-Myanmar--Make-polls-fair
Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said at an Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) meeting that he had delivered the region's message directly to Myanmar's generals during a visit last week.
"We hope to see Myanmar implementing effectively the roadmap for peace ... and that the elections should be fair, democratic, with the participation of all parties," Mr Nguyen Tan Dung, the current Asean chair said.
Myanmar's elections will be the first in the military-run state for two decades, but the party of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called a boycott over rules that would have forced it to expel its leader if it wanted to participate.
Indonesia will chair Asean in 2011, swapping with Brunei as the venue of the group's meetings, because of a scheduling clash with its Apec host duties in 2013. AFP
Source :http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC100410-0000098/Asean-to-Myanmar--Make-polls-fair
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