Suu Kyi calls for jobs, legal reforms in Myanmar Myanmar opposition leader call for urgent legal reforms, more jobs
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Friday called for urgent legal reforms in the formerly military ruled Southeast Asian nation as she also urged for an immediate financial investment in her country to meet its needs.
Suu Kyi was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Bangkok and said employment and training for unskilled Myanmar's youth was vital for economic development of the impoverished nation.
"I am here not to tell you what to do but to tell you what we need Please think deeply for us," the Noble Peace prize winner said in her first speech outside Myanmar in nearly a quarter of the century.
She said her nation does not need investment that would fuel corruption and create greater inequality.
"We want it to mean jobs. There is a great need for basic skills We need vocational training much more than higher education."
Addressing world business leaders, Suu Kyi stressed on the need to have the "rule of law" more than legal safeguards for foreign investors in Myanmar.
"Investors in Burma, please be warned -- even the best investment law would be of no use whatsoever if there is no court clean enough and independent enough to be able to administer these laws justly," she said.
"Good laws already exist in Burma but we do not have a clean and independent judicial system. Unless we have such a system it is no use having the best laws in the world."
Suu Kyi has been the major centre of attraction at the Bangkok summit, her first trip abroad in 24 years, drawing crowds of well-wishers and photographers.
She arrived in the Thai capital Tuesday and has met several dignitaries including Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Source: Southeast Asia News.Net
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