Burma pledges to stick with democracy 'road map'

Military-ruled Burma says it will stick with its “road map” to democracy despite the junta’s recent purge of the prime minister who proposed it, but is ducking questions on when pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will go free.

The UN special envoy to Burma, Razali Ismail, headed today to Laos to meet Burma’s new foreign minister, Nyan Win, who made his country’s latest democracy pledge at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) conference in the Laotian capital.