Suu Kyi's Party To Register For Myanmar Elections

Yangon (Myanmar), Nov 18: Myanmar’s main opposition party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi decided today to rejoin politics and register for future elections, signaling its confidence in recent reforms by the military-aligned government.

The National League for Democracy party “has unanimously decided to re-register as a political party ... and will run in the elections,” said a party statement issued at the end of a meeting of senior members from all across the country.

Earlier, member after member, including Suu Kyi, spoke out in favour of joining the political arena because of reforms initiated by the nominally civilian, but military-aligned government, which have drawn cautious approval from even its most bitter critic, the United States.

President Barack Obama announced today that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would visit early next month, the first such trip in more than a half-century after what he said were “flickers of progress” in Myanmar.


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