The United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) has sent a letter to the United Nations Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-Moon to pressure the State Peace and Development Council to hold a free and fair election in 2010.

The letter sent on March 16 stated the SPDC’s election laws are not in accordance with the UN suggestions and it urged the UN leader to apply appropriate pressure on the SPDC so that the planned 2010 election in Burma could be all inclusive and free and fair.

The UNA letter stated, “The laws are also against the opinions of the international community and the actual desires of the people of Myanmar.  All these election laws are based on the unjust and legally unapproved constitution 2008. According to these election laws, we feel that the coming elections cannot be free and fair.”

The UNA also requested the UN to pressure the Burmese junta to free all political prisoners, to hold a tripartite dialogue among the SPDC, democratic forces led by Daw Aung Sann Su Kyi and ethnic nationalities and to halt military operations in the ethnic areas.

Nai Ngwe Thein, the spokesman and Member of the Secretariat of the UNA, is also the Vice-Chairman of the Mon National Democratic Front (MNDF) that won five seats during the 1990 election.  The MNDF previously stated it will not contest the 2010 general elections because the party did not accept the approved 2008 constitution.

The United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) is a coalition of ethnic political parties in Burma which contested and won 67 seats in the 1990 general election.