Myanmar's Suu Kyi meets UN envoy

MYANMAR: Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari yesterday during his mission to try to coax her and the ruling military junta towards talks on political reform.

Officials from Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) said the meeting, that also included four senior party members, lasted more than an hour. It was not known what they discussed.

Hopes of success for Gambari are slim after six previous visits that yielded no results, although he has already done better than his last trip, when he was snubbed by Suu Kyi despite her being held incommunicado under house arrest since May 2003.

Yangon, Monday, Reuters