MYANMAR GOV'T HAS NO DESIRE TO STIC

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Subject: MYANMAR GOV'T HAS NO DESIRE TO STICK TO POWER

MYANMAR GOV'T HAS NO DESIRE TO STICK TO POWER:

Xinhua, Yangon, 19 November 1999. MYANMAR LEADER 
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL KHIN NYUNT REITERATED
THURSDAY THAT THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT HAS 
NO DESIRE WHATEVER TO HOLD POWER FOR A LONG TIME. 

ADDRESSING AT A COURSE OF DIPLOMACY HERE THURSDAY 
NIGHT, FIRST EVER ORGANIZED BY THE MYANMAR FOREIGN 
MINISTRY, KHIN NYUNT, FIRST SECRETARY OF THE STATE 
PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, SAID: "ONCE THE
CONSTITUTION HAS EMERGED, THERE MUST BE A TRANSFER 
OF POWER TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT WHICH 
WILL LEAD THE NATION IN THE FUTURE." 

HE ADDED THAT THE TATMADAW (MILITARY) GOVERNMENT 
CONSIDERS ITSELF A TRANSITIONAL ADMINISTRATION WHICH 
IS LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR THE EMERGENCE OF A 
MULTI-PARTY DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM FROM THE PREVIOUS
SOCIALIST ONE. 

THE PRESENT MILITARY GOVERNMENT TOOK OVER THE POWER 
OF STATE ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1988. IN ORDER TO TRANSFER POWER 
BACK TO A CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT, THE MILITARY HELD A GENERAL
ELECTION ON MAY 27, 1990, IN WHICH 93 POLITICAL PARTIES TOOK 
PART. IN THE ELECTION, THE OPPOSITION NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR 
DEMOCRACY WON A VAST MAJORITY OF VOTES, GETTING 396 OUT 
OF THE 485 PARLIAMENTARY SEATS. 


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