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No time frame for Burma 'roadmap for democracy'

Burma's military government says it wants to hold free and fair elections.
The surprise announcement was made during a speech by the country's newly appointed Prime Minister, as South-east Asia correspondent Peter Lloyd reports:
"General Khin Nyunt was giving his first major policy speech to high ranking government officials in Rangoon less than a week after taking over the prime minister's job from Burma's number one leader Than Shwe. He promised the elections would be based on a new constitution drawn up by a constitutional convention. Significantly the general gave no time frame for the elections or for what he described as a "seven-point roadmap for democracy." Burma's national constitutional convention was suspended in 1996 following a boycott by the opposition National League for Democracy. The military still refuses to recognise the opposition's landslide victory in elections held in 1990."
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