By: Edith M. Lederer, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, April 01, 2010.
NEW YORK - Thailand will be pressing Myanmar's military leaders in the coming week to open its first elections in two decades to all political opponents and ethnic minorities, the country's foreign minister said Friday.
"I'm concerned about the national reconciliation and the inclusiveness of the whole new political process," Kasit Piromya said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Last week, opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, denounced the government's newly announced laws guiding the election as undemocratic and recommended a boycott of the election, expected later this year.
Her National League for Democracy, which swept the last vote in 1990 but was barred from taking power, decided Monday to opt out of the election and now faces dissolution under the junta's laws.
Kasit said Thailand has raised the issue of political inclusiveness with Myanmar and he will raise it again when he meets Myanmar's foreign minister in two days at a meeting of the Mekong River Regional Commission which Thailand is hosting.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
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