By SPA
Jakarta : Myanmar’s military rulers have agreed to meet a U.N. envoy in March to discuss the country’s “roadmap to democracy”, including its plans to bar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from taking part in elections, the envoy said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
In a surprise move, the former Burma’s ruling generals this month announced a referendum in May on a new constitution, to be followed by an election in 2010. If held, the poll would be the first since a 1990 election whose outcome the military ignored.
“What is important for us is to work together with them, with the neighbouring countries, with ASEAN and the international community to enhance the credibility of this constitutional process, to make national reconciliation more inclusive,” said Ibrahim Gambari, the United Nations special
envoy to Myanmar.
Gambari, speaking to reporters after meeting Indonesia’s foreign minister in Jakarta, said he would visit Myanmar in the first week in March. The junta had previously proposed a mid-April date.