New Delhi: Myanmar's Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi ended her boycott of Parliament and will be sworn in on Wednesday. The Nobel laureate had objected to the wording of the oath because it required her to pledge to protect the Myanmar constitution, which she says gives too much power to the ruling military junta.
"Politics is an issue of give and take," she told reporters in the main city, Yangon, on Monday. "We are not giving up, we are just yielding to the aspirations of the people."
Suu Kyi's party National League for Democracy wanted "safeguard" replaced with "respect," a change made in other laws including electoral legislation that enabled Suu Kyi's party to officially enter politics for the first time in decades.
The apparent resolution of the deadlock came as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was visiting Myanmar to encourage democratisation and reform.
In an address to the parliament, he called for the international community to lift sanctions it imposed on Myanmar in response to the previous military junta's repression and to increase aid for the country's development.
The NLD participated in elections on April 1 for the first time since 1990, when it won a landslide victory that was promptly annulled by the army.
With Additional Inputs from AP
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