SPDC’s road map useless without NLD says Kofi Annan

DVB ( 12 November 2003 )

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that the SPDC has not shown any indication that political parties and ethnic groups will be allowed to participate in its ‘roadmap plan’, nor has it set out a timeline for transition to democracy.

Annan said in a report to the UN General Assembly that Burma's stability and multiethnic society can best be ensured by pressing ahead with a transition to civilian rule and the return of democracy.

Annan also appealed again for the immediate release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and "to begin a substantive dialogue with NLD and representatives of all of Burma’s political parties and ethnic nationalities for implementing the road map in a meaningful way.''

Dr. San Aung of exiled NCGUB (National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma) agreed that the SPDC’s road map is one-sided and self-serving.

Phado Manh Sha of NCUB (National Council of the Union of Burma) commented that the plan is designed to propagate military dictatorship and despotism in Burma.