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In a move to kick start reforms in Burma, today US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced to ease a long anticipated key import ban on goods from Burma into the United States, seeking to hold tightly its continuous loosing sanctions against Myanmar since past 18 months.
The suspension of investment ban has announced at the United Nations General Assembly where Mrs. Clinton met with Burma President Thein Sein and both countries decided to shake hands over reforms issue
It has been reported that Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi who had struggled from 22 last years as spent crucial time by locked under house arrest, had won a seat in Parliament for the first time.
A global icon, Kyi succeed to mark a “victory of the people”, tagged the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
While she elected to Parliamentary by polls elections on Sunday, supporters of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party declared that her entry will mark a major turning point in a nation still emerging from a ruthless era of military rule.
In Myanmar, Parliamentary by- polls started at 6 a.m. on Sunday morning with contesting in 9 regions or states of 157 candidates out of whom 17 are from political parties and 7 individuals.
Around 6.8 million voters will cast their votes for 45 constituencies, Kawhmu, Thonkwa, Dagon Seikkan, Mingala Taungnyunt, Hlegu and Mayangon are the six constituencies from which seven parties ,six are new, will participate in contest as representatives of House in Yangon region for six vacant seats in it.
Opposition leader, the Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, will stand for first time in Parliamentary by elections, along with 43 members of her National League for Democracy party for 48 vacant seats.
