SPDC needs clear time frame for road map says ASEAN

DVB ( 24 November 2003 )

Indonesia, the current rotating president of ASEAN demanded the Burmese military junta, the SPDC a clear time frame for the road map plan for national reconciliation in Burma.

The Foreign Minister of Indonesia, Mr. Hassan Wirajuda said that the first priority is the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the inclusion of her and NLD members to be in the national reconciliation process.

The FM is said to be annoyed by the delay of the SPDC’s response as it was promised by the regime during recent ASEAN summit in Bali.

The criticism emerges while the SPDC is desperately trying to organise a ‘National Convention’ with its sympathisers and ethnic nationals who signed ceasefire agreements with the regime.

But a spokesman of KIO (Kachin Independence Organisation), one of the ceasefire groups who recently met the SPDC’s prime Minister insisted that its delegates didn’t come to see the minister for the road map plan but to discuss other matters.

At the same time, another ceasefire group, NMSP (New Mon State Party) refused to send its representatives within three days as it is demanded by the SPDC because of the importance of the matter, said the organisation’s spokesman.