Myanmar will consider the call madeon Tuesday by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan for the country's national reconciliation and democratization process, according to a government statement Thursday.

"The government of Myanmar appreciates and respects the views and opinion of the United Nations Secretary General," the statement said.

On Tuesday, Annan urged the Myanmar government to immediately release Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK), leader of the main opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), and hold substantive dialoguewith the party and others for the democratization process.

Annan also called for granting his special envoy Razali Ismail's visit to Myanmar again as soon as possible so as to facilitate the process.

Myanmar resumed the national constitutional convention on May 17 as the first step of its seven-point roadmap to democracy without the participation of the NLD together with the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD).

However, the convention was attended by a total of over 1,000 formally invited delegates from eight categories of delegate groups mainly including political parties, representatives-elect (in the 1990 general election), state service personnel (including armymen) and invited individuals (including turned-in former anti-government ethnic armed groups).

The session of the convention adjourned on July 9 after month-long discussion on detailed principles for power sharing in the sectors of legislature, executive and judiciary.

However, the authorities did not announce the specific date of resuming the convention which is predicted by October-November.

In August last year, Myanmar announced the political roadmap working for a national referendum, a general election to produce parliament representatives and forming a new democratic government.Enditem

Source: Xinhua