HANOI, April 7 (AFP) - More than 100 ASEAN lawmakers on Wednesday urged leaders meeting in Vietnam this week to impose sanctions on Myanmar and consider its expulsion for ignoring calls for free and fair elections.
The legislators said leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at their annual summit Thursday and Friday should "urgently discuss" the election due to be held in Myanmar later this year.
In a petition to the leaders, the parliamentarians condemned election laws unveiled by Myanmar's junta which have been criticised as undermining the credibility of the vote, the first to be held in the country for two decades.
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