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YANGON, Tuesday (Reuters) -U.N. envoy to Myanmar Razali Ismail met detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday and said she was "in good spirits" and had not been injured.

International concern had intensified over the health and whereabouts of the Nobel peace prize winner since the violence on May 30 as she was touring a provincial town in the north.

She has been in detention since then.

Razali had an hour-long meeting with Suu Kyi at the junta's headquarters in Yangon. Asked by reporters at Yangon airport, as he was about to leave for Kuala Lumpur, about Suu Kyi's condition, he said: "No injuries. She's in good spirits." Diplomatic pressure has mounted on the Myanmar government in recent days, with the United States, Britain and the European Union saying they are considering more trade and investment sanctions because of Suu Kyi's treatment.

Suu Kyi has spent much of the past 14 years under house arrest and was last released in May 2002. Since May 30, the junta has kept her in undisclosed locations and confined leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) to their houses.

Razali was instrumental in bringing the two sides together in "confidence building" talks in late 2000, which led to Suu Kyi's release from house arrest last May. But diplomats said events in the last two weeks had ruined Razali's work to encourage fresh talks on political change in Myanmar.

Earlier a yangon-based foreign diplomat told Reuters that Aung San Suu Kyi, detained by the military junta since May 30, would be taken back to her home on Tuesday where she will meet a United Nations envoy.

"We hear that she will be returned to her residence today and the envoy will meet her there," the Asian diplomat said.

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