Controlling Movie Clip with actionscript Question

Dear All,
I have a movie clip named A which inside this movie clip
there is another Movie clip named B and inside B there is a listbox
component.
Inside Movie clip A there are 20 frames which at frame 10
there is a stop() script.
My question is how to control Movieclip A to run
gotoAndPlay(11) from MovieClip B when there is a click action to
the listbox?
Please Advise,
Ozhee

if A is on the _root timeline from anywhere in your _level0
swf you can use:

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