Suu Kyi, her MPs take oath in Myanmar parliament

NAYPYIDAW -  Aung San Suu Kyi Wednesday made her much awaited parliament debut as she and her party colleagues were sworn-in following a now resolved deadlock over the wording in the oath.

Nobel laureate took the public office for the first time marking a transformation in the Asian nation that was long isolated for its authoritarian military rule.

Suu Kyi, is now central to the nation's transition to democracy that has also led to the lifting of embargoes against the country in a phased manner.

Suu Kyi said she and her fellow NLD lawmakers would "carry out our duties within the parliament as we have been carrying out our duties outside the parliament for the last 20 or so years". "I believe I can serve the interests of the people more than before," the veteran pro-democracy activist told reporters after the ceremony.

"We would like our parliament to be in line with genuine democratic values. It's not because we want to remove anybody as such, we just want to make the kind of improvements that would make our national assembly truly democratic."

She and members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) had initially refused to take part in a swearing-in ceremony due to the wording of the oath. But on Monday they agreed to compromise, as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited Myanmar.