Senator Webb also met with Prime Minister Thien Sein, Foreign Minister Nyan Win, the chairman of the State Constitution Drafting Commission Aung Toe and representatives from political parties, including Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy and state-affiliated social organizations.

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The council ruled that the constitution-drafting commission should be directly elected, perhaps as a sop to easterners who argued that they were underrepresented by the previously proposed allocation of seats in the commission.

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Sunday's agreement provides for the creation of a "transition commission" tasked with drafting a law to implement the framework deal.

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