Lawmakers Want Summit To Review Non-Intervention Policy
Monday, 12-12-2005By Santha Oorjitham
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 (Bernama)—It’s time to review Asean’s policy of non-intervention in member countries and constructive engagement with Myanmar, say Asean legislators.
“The coup d’etat last year which replaced then Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt with Lieutenant-General Soe Win, the Nov 27 extension of the confinement of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for another six months and moving the capital from Yangon to the remote jungle centre of Pyinmana are all indications the military regime in Myanmar is in a state of withdrawal,” Thai senator Jon Ungphakorn told Bernama in a phone interview from Bangkok. (more…)