SECRETARY-GENERAL WELCOMES RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MYANMAR
The following statement was issued this morning by the Office of the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
The Secretary-General welcomes the release Thursday of five more members of Parliament of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar, which he hopes will provide a new impetus to the ongoing talks between the Government and
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for democratization and national reconciliation in the country.
The Secretary-General has been encouraged by a series of recent developments, including the release last week of a dozen political prisoners and the opening of some NLD offices in Yangon, that have unfolded since the visit to the country of his Special Envoy, Razali Ismail, in early June.� He calls on the two sides to build on this momentum to achieve further progress in their dialogue process.
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