Meeting on Burma affairs in Bangkok and reactions

DVB ( 15 December 2003 )

International news agencies are claiming that the scheduled meeting on Burma affairs in Bangkok to be held on 15 December is going to be a historic event.

The two hour long meeting is to be attended by representatives from Australia, Austria, China, France, Japan, India, Indonesia, Italy and Singapore and they are to hear the explanation of the foreign minister of Burma’s military junta the SPDC, U Win Aung on the regime’s road map plan.

Despite the praises of the news agencies, the NCUB (National Council of the Union of Burma) denounced both the meeting and the SPDC’s road map plan.

A statement of the NCUB says that the SPDC’s road map plan is useless to the national reconciliation process and the emergence of democracy in Burma.

The NCUB’s secretary, Phado Mahn Sha Lar Phan said that the there is no way except the tripartite talk among democratic activists, ethnic national groups and the SPDC for the national reconciliation and the emergence of a democratic system in Burma.

‘The SPDC’s road map plan is not based on the wish of the people of Burma and it would not bring about democracy and a federal system in Burma but the propagation of military dictatorship,’ he insisted.

Without the participations of the NLD and the UNA (United Nationalities Alliance) the SPDC’s National Convention would not go anywhere, Phado Mahn Sha added.

The NCUB also requested the participations of the UN and the international community to solve the problems in Burma.