The National Legislative Assembly met yesterday for the first time after being appointed to office by the junta. No European Union country attended the ceremony since the EU does not consider this assembly to be a legitimate parliament. The US ambassador was there.
It's not clear what the Assembly is supposed to do since the Junta has already appointed a commission to handle the drafting of the new Constitution and the country remains under the junta's declaration of martial law.
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New National Assembly meets
Started by Sexpat, Oct 21 2006 09:43 AM
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Posted 21 October 2006 - 12:01 PM
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No European Union country attended the ceremony since the EU does not consider this assembly to be a legitimate parliament. The US ambassador was there.
It's amazing how quickly the US adapts to feeling comfortable with non-democratic regimes that it considers "friendly." Israel and India can make as many A-bombs as they please, but Iran and North Korea must be punished for taking the same path. Burma has a "rump assembly" to draft a new constitution; Thailand has something different.
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Posted 24 October 2006 - 10:23 AM
As a history major, this parliament looks a lot like the Dumas that the Czars used to play with in Russia, appointing and dismissing them with the wave of a finger, with revolving door prime ministers changing with the political winds.
