Aung San Suu Kyi takes seat in Myanmar parliament

NAY PYI TAW - Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar's National League for Democracy (NLD) and parliament representative-elect, arrived at the legislature building in Nay Pyi Taw Wednesday morning and started to take seat in the parliament for the first time.

Suu Kyi, along with all 42 other elected law makers of her party except three, who are on official visit to Australia, were sworn in to the parliament's two houses about half an hour after their arrival in the presence of the two-house speakers and other existing parliament members using the existing office oath word of "safeguarding the constitution" as a concession to the oath word issue.

A total of 34 NLD elected Members of Parliament including Suu Kyi and excluding the absent three took the seats of the House of Representatives, while four others took the seats of the House of Nationalities.