On 8 August 2007, Mr. Ibrahim Gambari, United Nations Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Myanmar, paid a courtesy call on Foreign Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram during his round of consultations with key Asian countries on the issue of Myanmar. As a close neighbour and an ASEAN member, Mr. Gambari would like to seek Thailand’s opinion on how best the UN and Thailand could work together on Myanmar’s issues. (Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Kingdom of Thailand)

(9) History does not want us to move backward, but to move forward step by step. Today citizens of Burma are the best witnesses of this history. They can compare the situations in 1962 when General Ne Win staged a military coup and in 1974 when a single-party dictatorship emerged from the Constitution. (Source: 88 Generation)

We, the NCGUB and NCUB take this opportunity to express our solidarity with the Members of Parliament-Elect and call on all international institutions and the international community, including member governments of the ASEAN, China, India, Japan, Russia, and the Western democracies, to step up their demands on the generals to stop their flagrant attempt to unilaterally impose on the people a so-called constitution which is illegally drafted by the military under a process it has strictly controlled and to engage in a true, transparent, and all-inclusive democratization process in Burma.