Myanmar yearns to join global community
Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi told a gathering of the world business elite at the Swiss resort of Davos that her countrymen “yearn to be a part of the global community.”
“I would like to speak on behalf of the 55 million people of Burma who have for the most part been left behind,” she said, in an audio address to the World Economic Forum, the world’s most influential annual networking event.
“We yearn to be a part of the global community: not only to be economically and socially connected, but also to achieve the domestic political stability and national reconciliation that would enable us to fully address the needs of our people,” she added.
Suu Kyi said her isolated, junta-ruled country has already “missed so many opportunities because of political conflicts” over the last five decades.
It is never too late to join society and become an emerging nation! Fortunately, we live in a world where innovation and diversification are readily available, thus enabling the people of Burma to catch up with the rest of the world very quickly.