No timeline given for polls as Min Aung Hlaing appears on TV six months after junta seized power

Myanmar’s military ruler, Min Aung Hlaing, has promised new multiparty elections and said his government is ready to work with any special envoy named by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).

He spoke in a televised address six months after the army seized power from a civilian government after elections won by the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling party. There was no timeline specified for the elections.

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