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Article: Roundup: Myanmar national convention resuming to push forward roadmap process
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- December 5, 2005
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Roundup: Myanmar national convention resuming to push forward
roadmap process
YANGON, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's national convention to lay
down principles for a new state constitution is due to resume its
session here Monday morning after eight-month adjournment since the
end of March to push forward its roadmap process to democracy.
The national convention, as the first step of the country's seven-
point political roadmap to democracy laid down by the government in
August 2003, formally resumed on May 17, 2004 after a long suspension
since March 1996.
The remaining six steps of the roadmap are outlined as undergoing
a national referendum on draft of the constitution, holding a ...