In her first meeting of 2010, Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi had a 30-minute meeting with the regime's specially appointed Relations Minister, Aung Kyi, at Sein Lei` Kantha state guest house on Wednesday afternoon, National League for Democracy (NLD) spokesman Khin Maung Swe said.
“We don't have any details of the meeting,” Khin Maung Swe said, “ but we heard from Western diplomats that the meeting took place at the state guest house and lasted for almost thirty minutes.”
Aung Kyi was appointed liaison officer between Suu Kyi and the Burma's military government in 2007.
Since the 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate wrote two letters in September and November last year to junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe expressing her willingness to cooperate with the junta in the national interest and with the aim of ending Western sanctions against Burma, the two have met four times.
Their last meeting took place at a government guesthouse near her home on Dec. 9.
“Because Aung San Suu Kyi and the government have an agreement not to release any details of their meetings without mutual agreement, she did not pass any information to us through her lawyer Nyan Win,” Khing Maung Swe said.
Burmese state-run media usually reports meetings between her and Aung Kyi without giving details.
Suu Kyi has been detained for 14 of the past 20 years. In May last year, when her 6-year sentence of house arrest was coming to an end, she was convicted for briefly sheltering an American citizen who swam uninvited to her lakeside home.
She was initially sentenced to three years in prison with hard labor, but Than Shwe commuted the sentence to 18 months of house arrest.
On Jan.18, the Supreme Court will make a final review of her lawyers' appeal against her current house arrest.
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