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| Aung San Suu Kyi on whether her party should re-enter the political process (Video) |
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Burmese
pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to announce on Friday that
her party will stand in forthcoming by-elections.
Government
electoral regulations opposed by the party were changed recently.
In an
interview with the BBC, she also put herself forward as a negotiator to resolve
Burma's ethnic conflicts.
Her party
was not able to stand in the polls in November 2010 because of conditions
imposed to keep it out.
Those
conditions have now been lifted, and Aung San Suu Kyi said that she expected
most of her party to support a decision to run in by-elections when they meet
tomorrow.
She is
certain to be one of the candidates her party puts forward for by-elections in
about 50 parliamentary seats, vacant after MPs were appointed as ministers.
She said
she was confident that remaining political prisoners would soon be released, a
confidence that may come from her recent talks with the new president, Thein
Sein, whom she described as a good listener.
He is
credited with the pace of reforms.
She said
one sign of the change was that the BBC had been allowed to come to Burma and
interview her openly for the first time.
Ethnic
warfare on the borders has worsened this year, and she offered herself as a
negotiator, but said the continuing conflict should not prevent normal
democracy operating elsewhere in the country.
This Nobel
peace prize winner said she did not think she had suffered, despite her years
in forced seclusion, unable to see her husband when he was dying.
Laos and Myanmar to remove v-o-a policy
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Indonesia's
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (R) greets Laos'
Prime Minister Thongsing
Thammavong before the opening ceremony
(ASEAN) Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali
November 17, 2011. Indonesia
is hosting the 19th ASEAN Summit and Related
Summits 2011.
(Credit: Reuters/Stephen Morrison/Pool)
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