Peace talks will be priority: Suu Kyi

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi Monday said bringing peace to the country's strife-wracked ethnic regions will be a priority for her government when it takes power, reports AFP.
The veteran democracy champion's National League for Democracy (NLD) party swept landmark November polls that look set to curtail the military's decades-long chokehold on the country. But under Myanmar's complicated junta-era political charter, her party is not expected to take power until February -- and Suu Kyi herself is banned from becoming president.
"We have to build peace. Building peace is the first ever duty of a new government," she told supporters at the party's Yangon headquarters on Monday, during a speech marking the country's Independence Day.
"We have to work to include everyone in a signed ceasefire agreement by holding a really effective peace conference," she added.
The 70-year-old opposition leader had remained somewhat tight-lipped on what her government's main objectives and who her main players will be, as delicate transition negotiations continue between the incumbent military-backed government and the her victorious party.

Peace talks will be priority: Suu Kyi

Myanmars Aung San Suu Kyi Monday said bringing peace to the countrys strife-wracked ethnic regions will be a priority for her government when it takes power, reports AFP. The veteran democracy champions National League for Democracy (NLD) party swept landmark November polls that look set to curtail the militarys decades-long chokehold on the country. But under Myanmars complicated junta-era political charter, her party is not expected to take power until February -- and Suu Kyi herself is banned from becoming president. We have to build peace. Building peace is the first ever duty of a new government, she told supporters at the partys Yangon headquarters on Monday, during a speech marking the countrys Independence Day. We have to work to include everyone in a signed ceasefire agreement by holding a really effective peace conference, she added. The 70-year-old opposition leader had remained somewhat tight-lipped on what her governments main objectives and who her main players will be, as delicate transition negotiations continue between the incumbent military-backed government and the her victorious party.