Aung San Suu Kyi confident on reconciliation move

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-11-09 21:24

YANGON -- Detained political party leader of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi is confident on the government's national reconciliation move, said spokesman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) U Nyan Win on Friday.

A Myanmar pro-democracy activist holds a picture of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest in New Delhi Oct. 19, 2007.
A Myanmar pro-democracy activist holds a picture of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi during a protest in New Delhi Oct. 19, 2007. [File]

U Nyan Win made the remarks after he and other three members of the NLD Central Executive Committee (CEC) met with Aung San Suu Kyi, NLD General Secretary, at the State Guest House here earlier on Friday.

The gathering of the party leadership which include Chairman U Aung Shwe, Secretary U Lwin and U Nyunt Wai, requested by Aung San Suu Kyi to the government, marked the first in more than three years since May 2004.

According to U Nyan Win, Aung San Suu Kyi's meeting with her CEC members was to seek agreement with them for preparing points to be raised in discussions with the government on national reconciliation.

Aung San Suu Kyi told him that she would resolve properly to meet the conditions set by Myanmar top leader Senior-General Than Shwe in his offer to her for a direct talk.

As regards with the conditions for abandoning efforts for imposing sanctions on Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi held that the matter is subject to the sanctioning countries themselves.

With regard to the recent incident of monks demonstrations, she held that the tragic wound must undergo remedy first.

She demanded one more liaison officer for getting links with Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council.

On Friday, Myanmar Liaison Minister U Aung Kyi also met with Aung San Suu Kyi separately at the State Guest House, according to official sources.

It is the second round of the talks for the two parties since October 25. However, no more details of their meeting being immediately available.

The above two meetings took place on the same day after United Nations Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari concluded his six-day mission to Myanmar Thursday. Shortly before his departure on the day, Gambari met with Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), for about an hour with Aung San Suu Kyi authorizing him to issue a statement on her behalf, in which Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to cooperate with the government.

During Gambari's previous mission to Myanmar in September-October, Than Shwe offered through Gambari on Oct. 2 for a conditional and direct talk to Aung San Suu Kyi personally. Than Shwe's conditions set Aung San Suu Kyi to abandon her alleged "exerted efforts for confrontation, utter devastation, and imposing all kinds of sanctions including economic sanctions against Myanmar".

As a follow-up, the government appointed U Aung Kyi, now Labor Minister, concurrently as Liaison Minister to get links with her.

Aung San Suu Kyi, 62, has spent most of the last 18 years under house arrest since July 1989, the latest being since Dabayin bloody incident on May 30, 2003.



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