Myanmar's parliament sessions are due to resume later on Tuesday in Nay Pyi Taw with two separate sessions of the two Houses to take place first in the morning, while the session of the Union Parliament comprising both houses to be followed in the afternoon.

The 8th parliament sessions came one month after the end of the 7th sessions on Aug. 31 which lasted for more than two months from June 25.

More issues related to political, economic and legislative affairs as well as amendment of constitution are expected to be on the agenda for discussion.

During the last 7th sessions, USwe Mann, speaker of the House of Representative, took over the alternate seat of Speaker of the two-House Union Parliament from U Khin Aung Myint who retained as speaker of the House of Nationalities.

USwe Mann, who is also chairman of the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), was to run for the remaining two and a half years' term for the current five-year tenure of President U Thein Sein's government.

Also during the last session, the parliament mainly adopted, among others, a proposal to form a 109-member Constitution Review Joint Committee, represented proportionally by parliament members of both Houses, political parties, military MPs and individuals, to make necessary amendment to the 2008 State Constitution.

The parliament sought admission to the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property as well as admission to the World Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency- MIGS Convention.

In addition, the parliament endorsed the government's appointment of the governor and vice governors of the Central Bank of Myanmar and approved a number of bills including those related with population and household registration, Myanmar citizens' investment, anti-corruption, management of natural disaster and communication.

During the length of period between the two sessions, the government made a second major reshuffle of its cabinet reassigning some four ministers, allowing two deputy ministers to resign, newly appointing and reshuffling over a dozen other deputy ministers with a number of ministries.

The government also formed a National Reform Steering Committee, led by President U Thein Sein himself, to direct efforts on reform program for the remaining 30 months of the present five- year term of office.

Under the national reform steering committee, cabinet committees led by the Vice President and ministers, and 26 cabinet subcommittee or delivery units headed by 23 deputy ministers were subsequently formed to coordinate between various ministries and state or region governments with regard to matters of economic reform, political reform, private sector development and reform and administrative reform on the ground level.

Meanwhile, the parliament stressed the importance of rule of law in the country, saying that stability and peace could not prevail in the absence of the rule of law and calling on all the people to abide by the law.

Myanmar has been in a process of democratic reform since the new civilian government, headed by President U Thein Sein, took office in March 2011 after a multi-party general election was held in November 2010.