cooperate in finding a solution for crisis in Burma. Regional players should
urge the military regime to abandon its recalcitrant and counter-intuitive
anti-dialogue policies in the interests of dialogue and
reconciliation.
Burma's generals must, therefore, take into account the
immediate release of the Lady and all political prisoners in favor of peaceful
settlement for reconciliation. It is a rare confluence of views that have seen
the international community from the United Nations Security Council, the United
States, the European Union, and the ASEAN taking the same view on the question
of Aung San Suu Kyi.
To succeed in establishing a fair-minded equation,
the military must recognize the Lady as the ideal, indeed, the only relevant,
dialogue-partner for national reconciliation in Burma. If the generals are going
on with an anti-dialogue stance, the future of the poverty-stricken people of
Burma has to face various socio-economic problems. It may cause reasons to
devastate 2010 election as a charade.
Besides, while Aung San Suu Kyi is
under confinement, the popularity which gave her a sweeping victory in the
country's election in 1990 will not be faded out but seems to be stronger than
ever. The fact is that people already know the process of the junta's next year
general election has almost nothing to do with democracy.
Win, the spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD)
and a member of her legal team, told the media that his party welcome Mr Ban
Ki-moon's visit. He put in plain words why his party has made a salutation to
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's present visit.
"His visit will focus on
three main things: to release all political prisoners, to start dialogue and
also to ensure free and fair elections in 2010. Regarding these three things, he
needs to meet with Aung San Suu Kyi," Nyan Win said.
Therefore, Mr. Ban
Ki-Moon must cautiously handle the vulnerable question of Burma during July 3-4
trip not only to keep his own promise but also to produce a fruitful solution
to a half-century-long political conflicts of the South-East Asian nation.
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