Myanmar state media Wednesday called on the country's people to defend the nation from the danger of internal and external destructive elements, while cherishing, valuing and safeguarding the independence and sovereignty which successive generations of ancestors managed to help the nation regain.
"Neo-colonialists and saboteurs with negative views persist in resorting to various means to intrude on the fruits the state is enjoying in the political, economic and social sectors," the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar warned in its editorial two days ahead of the country's 60th Anniversary Independence Day.
Calling on the people to protect the costly independence, the editorial noted that "the government, the armed forces and the people are working hard together to transform the nation into a new democratic one", reiterating that the country's national convention has been completed under its seven-step roadmap and fundamental principles and detailed basic principles have been adopted for drafting a new state constitution which is underway as the roadmap's third step.
Myanmar's national convention, which started in 1993, ended on Sept. 3 last year and the work of constitution drafting was claimed to have started on Dec. 3 in the year.
Myanmar formed a 54-member State Constitution Drafting Commission on Oct. 18 last year with Chief Justice U Aung Toe as Chairman and involving some legal experts to undertake the drafting of the constitution.
According to the government's roadmap announced in August 2003,the new constitution draft is to be endorsed through a national referendum, then a new general election will follow to produce parliament representatives and form a new democratic government.
Myanmar regained its independence from the British colonialists on Jan. 4, 1948.
Source: Xinhua
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