Burma to resume constitution work

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The military government in Burma says it will resume talks on a constitution.

A convention was suspended earlier this year, but a government official said on state TV a new round of talks would be held in the second week of October.

The move comes after the US pressed at the UN for political repression in Burma to be formally put on the Security Council agenda this month.

The main opposition group has boycotted talks. Its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, remains under house arrest.

The National League for Democracy won a landslide victory in 1990 but has never been allowed to govern by the military.

Burma has not had a constitution since the junta seized power in 1988.

The so-called National Convention was started in 1993, with the aim of drawing up a constitution as a first step in a seven-point plan towards the restoration of democracy.