Members of the parliament said that they are hoping that the members of ASEAN would tackle their issue in the forthcoming ASEAN Summit in Cebu this December.
Burma's parliamentarian elect Dr. Sann Aung said that they are hoping that the ASEAN would grant their plight as the situation in Burma is becoming "worse."
Sann Aung said that Myanmar continues to be ravaged by the excesses of military rule under the military junta called the State Peace and Development Council that continues to commit grave abuses against the basic human rights and fundamental freedom of the Burmese people.
The concerns included the "unjustifiable detention" of Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's pro-democracy leader who was arrested by the junta.
"The international community must continue pressing the Burmese regime to change its policies," Aung said, referring to Burma, the previous name of Myanmar.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who has been detained since May 2003 inside her lakeside home in central Yangon without a telephone, has spent 10 of the past 17 years in detention.
The NLD won a landslide election victory in 1990, but the military government never recognized the result.
Sann Aung said that the junta has not met any of the goals laid out by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan including the release of all political prisoners.
"It is past time for the Security Council to put Burma on the formal agenda and pass a resolution," Sann Aung said.
The junta reportedly has ignored 28 consecutive resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly and UN Commission on Human Rights. The Security Council is believed to be the only body that can pass and enforce binding resolutions on a UN member country, Aung Din said.
In the draft ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Organization (AIPO) resolution urged the United Nations Security Council to include Myanmar in its agenda and pass a binding resolution that would require the government of Burma to work with the UN Secretary General in implementing a plan of national reconciliation.
The resolution also requested Annan to remain involved in the reconciliation process and require him to report back to the council on a regular basis.
It also urged the government of Myanmar to ensure the immediate, safe and unhindered access to all parts of the country for the United Nations and international organizations to provide humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable groups of the population including internally displaced people.
They also wanted the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all of Burma's political prisoners.
The UN General Assembly will be held in New York this October and Congresswoman Etta Rosales who will be attending the said assembly is expected to raise the issue to the UN on the situation of Burma. - Jasmin R. Uy