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Article: VOA NEWS: BURMA'S MILITARY GOVERNMENT APPOINTS COMMISSION TO DRAFT CONSTITUTION

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October 18, 2007
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The Voice of America issued the following story:

Burma's military government says it has appointed a committee tasked with drafting the country's constitution.

State media Thursday report the 54-member committee will be chaired by Chief Justice Aung Toe.

The move is another step in the military government's so-called "road map" to democracy that it says will lead to elections in the future.

The guidelines for a new charter were decided during 14 years of talks that ended in September. The party of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was not a participant in those talks and the guidelines bar her from holding office.

The U.S. State Department Thursday reproached the Burmese ...

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