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NCUB statment ( August 25,1998 )



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<center><bigger>NCUB Statement on SPDC's Reaction towards NLD's  Plan for
Convening Parliament

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<flushright>August 25, 1998

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1. At the time of seizure of power by the SLORC military clique, there
was no constitutional law in existence. The political parties, members of
parliament-elect and the voters trusted and accepted the SLORC for its
Announcement No. 1/88, promising to hold a democratic general and
multi-party election, and the Election Law, provided for by Decree
No.14/89, and cooperated willingly. A law accepted by the general masses
and receiving their cooperation is legitimate, and a law rejected by them
is an unjust and illegitimate law. Therefore, the Election Law is still
valid, and no announcement, decree nor order shall supercede it.

2. The SLORC itself, on several occasions, had said that the 1990
election was free and fair. Several countries and the people of Burma
have accepted it as free and fair. 

3. According to international practices, or the two previous
Constitutions of Burma, the parliament must be convened within 60 days
after the general election. 

4. Though the NLD, with the mandate entrusted by the people, on several
occasions, called upon the SLORC/SPDC, which had supervised the election,
to convene the parliament, it still has been refusing to convene the
parliament, even though a period of more than 8 years has elapsed.  

5. The true owners of sovereign power are the people. Through the
election, the people have legally entrusted the NLD with it. Having that
mandate, it is entirely legal and correct for the NLD to convene the
parliament. As it is an undertaking in accordance with existing and valid
laws, there is no violation of any Burmese law.  

6. We believe that the meetings of U Aung Shwe, Chairman of the NLD, on
18-8-98, and again, a second time in August, of the NLD Executive
Members, U Than Tun and U Soe Myint, by some members of the SPDC military
junta was only one of the tactics of the SPDC, intended to slow down the
momentum of the effort for convening the parliament. Previously, for the
sake of portraying them as dialogues, the SPDC summoned some members of
the NLD it wanted to see, and let them go after intimidation and
politically insignificant talks.

7. If the SPDC military clique is sincere, it must immediately cease its
activities of persecution, limitations and obstruction, by various means,
against the NLD and the members of parliament-elect. In holding
dialogues, the SPDC must talk, on the basis equality, with delegates,
including Daw Aung Sann Kyi, chosen by the NLD. The principal subject of
any current dialogues should be convening of the parliament.

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[The NCUB was formed in 1991 to function as a parliament to the Burmese
parallel government, known as the National Coalition Government of the
Union of Burma (NCGUB). It comprises of representatives from the
Democratic Alliance of Burma (DAB), the National Democratic Front (NDF),
the Members of Parliamentarian Union (MPU) and the NCGUB.] 


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