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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam US demands 'immediate steps' by Myanmar on elections AFP - 22 minutes ago Send IM Story Print US demands 'immediate steps' by Myanmar on elections YANGON (AFP) - – The United States is deeply disappointed by Myanmar's preparations for rare elections and wants "immediate steps" to address fears they will lack legitimacy, a top US diplomat said Monday. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell issued his strongly-worded statement after meeting government officials and opposition leaders including detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. "What we have seen to date leads us to believe that these elections will lack international legitimacy," Campbell said of the junta's plans to stage a vote later this year that would be the first in two decades. "We urge the regime to take immediate steps to open the process in the time remaining before the elections," he said. US President Barack Obama's administration launched dialogue with Myanmar's military rulers last year after concluding that Western attempts to isolate the regime had produced little success. But it has sharply criticised their preparations for the polls planned for later this year which have been condemned by critics as a sham designed to legitimise the military rulers' grip on power. "Although we are profoundly disappointed by the response of the (Myanmar) leadership, I remain inspired by those outside the government with whom I met," Campbell added. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) was forcibly dissolved last week under widely criticised laws governing the elections. The Nobel Peace laureate, 64, held more than an hour of talks with Campbell after being driven to a state guesthouse in Yangon from the lakeside mansion where she has spent most of the last two decades under house arrest. Campbell met her once before in Yangon last November when he became the highest-ranking US official to visit Myanmar in 14 years. Suu Kyi did not speak to reporters but Win Tin, a former political prisoner and senior NLD member, said other top opposition figures had called on Washington to put more pressure on the junta in separate talks with Campbell. "We think the approach of the US is very soft in relation to this military government," Win Tin said. "We asked for tougher political or economic action. There is no position to begin credible elections as the world asks," he told reporters. "We reiterated (our request) not to acknowledge the coming result of the election." The NLD refused to meet a May 6 deadline to re-register as a party -- a move that would have forced it to expel its own leader -- and boycotted the vote. Under election legislation unveiled in March, anyone serving a prison term is banned from being a member of a political party and parties that fail to obey the rule will be abolished. Last week, top US Republican senator Mitch McConnell called for the renewal of tough sanctions targeting Myanmar junta leaders for their failure to make "real progress" on democratic reforms. The NLD, which was founded in 1988 after a popular uprising against the junta that left thousands dead, won a landslide victory in 1990 elections but the junta never allowed it to take office. A faction within the NLD said last week that it would form a new political party, to be called the National Democratic Force, to advance the movement's two-decade campaign to end military rule. The group is expected to run in the election, led by former NLD member Than Nyein. "I respect the difficult decision Burma's political parties have taken regarding the upcoming elections," Campbell said, using Myanmar's former name. "Some have decided to participate, some will not. It is the right of a free people to make those decisions for themselves, and the United States respects their decisions." Years of persecution by the junta left the NLD in poor shape, and the purist stance taken by the leadership, many aged in their 80s and 90s, has been questioned by a new generation favouring a more pragmatic approach. 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