YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's military junta completed the first stage of drawing up a new constitution on Monday after 14 years working out the broad outline of a "discipline-flourishing democracy", a delegate said.
Acting Prime Minister and National Convention chief Lieutenant-General Thein Sein told the 1,000 hand-picked delegates that actually drafting a new charter could begin now the "detailed basic principles" underpinning it had been decided.
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