The statement is responding USDP government’s warning letter to NLD on June 28, describing the party was illegal to conduct the political activities and the leaders were illegal to meet with foreign diplomats. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs sent the warning letter to NLD leadership, U Aung Shwe and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. The warning letter also described that if NLD transforms itself to be ‘social organization’, the government is happy to help.

The political analysts both outside and inside Burma found that was the pressure from the new government in their attempts to abolish NLD and restrict all their activities.

Burma Lawyers Council (BLC), which bases in Thailand, founds abolishing the NLD is illegal according the laws.

A lawyer , U Myo, from BLC said, “If we look from the aspect of laws and legal procedure, the government can’t abolish NLD. I agree with NLD’s Statement, there is no point that NLD is illegal to do the political activities. On the other hand, unlike some parties, it has not been abolished in the previous regimes. It has full rights to exist”.

BLC agrees with the argument of NLD accordingly to democratic principles. Democratic principle guarantee ‘freedom of association’, and the NLD can stand for its supporters whether it participated in elections or not.

The Mon political leaders want the government and NLD to solve the problem through negotiation and in a peaceful way.

Nai Ngwe Thein or Nai Janu Mon, the Chairpeson of All Mon Region Democratic Party said, “The government said the NLD is illegal. But the NLD thinks they are legal. It is an opinion conflict, and it needs to settle down in a way of negotiation. In a democratic country, negotiation is essential to practice”.

NLD registered as political party in 1998 before the 1990 elections. Since then although the leaders were arrested and put in detention for several years, the recent regimes State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) and State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), did not order to abolish the party. Since the party has existed, argued by NLD, it did not need to renew its registration in 2010 party registration law. Additionally, according the Statement, it did not against any constitutional laws accordingly to 2008 Constitution.

NLD won in 1990s elections in a landslide victory, but the recent regime SLORC denied to transfer power. NLD leaders, democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and others were constantly arrested, and the regimes crushed down NLD, but it did not order to close down NLD offices. The regime SPDC paved the way to draw the 2008 Constitution and 2010 elections to have the current Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) to win in elections.