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Government
Long-form name: Union of Burma; note--the local official
name is Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw which has been translated
as Union of Myanma or Union of Myanmar.
Type: military government.
Capital: Rangoon (sometimes translated as Yangon).
Administrative divisions: 7 divisions* (yin-mya, singular--yin)
and 7 states (pyine-mya, singular--pyine); Chin State, Irrawaddy*,
Kachin State, Karan State, Kayah State, Magwe*, Mandalay*,
Mon State, Pegu*, Rakhine State, Rangoon*, Sagaing*, Shan
State, Tenasserim*.
Independence: 4 January 1948 (from UK).
Constitution: 3 January 1974 (suspended since 18 September 1988).
Legal system: martial law in effect throughout most of the
country; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction.
National holiday: Independence Day, 4 January (1948).
Executive branch: chairman of the State Law and Order Restoration
Council, State Law and Order Restoration Council.
Legislative branch: unicameral People's Assembly (Pyithu
Hluttaw) was dissolved after the coup of 18 September 1988.
Judicial branch: Council of People's Justices was abolished
after the coup of 18 September 1988.
Leaders: Chief of State and Head of Government--Chairman
of the State Law and Order Restoration Council and Prime
Minister Gen. SAW MAUNG (since 18 September 1988).
Political parties and leaders: National League for Democracy,
U Tin Oo and Aung San Suu Kyi; League for Democracy and
Peace, U Nu; National Unity Party (promilitary); over 100
other parties.
Suffrage: universal at age 18.
Elections: People's Assembly--last held 6-20 October 1985,
but dissolved after the coup of 18 September 1988; next
scheduled 27 May 1990); results--percent of vote by party
NA; seats--(NA total) number of seats by party NA.
Communists: several hundred, est., primarily as an insurgent
group on the northeast frontier.
Other political or pressure groups: Kachin Independence
Army; Karen National Union, several Shan factions (all insurgent
groups); Burmese Communist Party (BCP).
Member of: ADB, Colombo Plan, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA,
IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IFC, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTERPOL, IRC,
ITU, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WMO.
Diplomatic representation: Ambassador U MYO AUNG; Chancery
at 2300 S Street NW, Washington DC 20008; telephone (202)
332-9044 through 9046; there is a Burmese Consulate General
in New York; US--Ambassador Burton LEVIN; Embassy at 581
Merchant Street, Rangoon (mailing address is G.P.O. Box 521,
Rangoon or Box B, APO San Francisco 96346); telephone 82055 or
82181.
Flag: red with a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side
corner bearing, all in white, 14 five-pointed stars encircling
a cogwheel containing a stalk of rice; the 14 stars represent
the 14 administrative divisions.