Myanmar high-ranking gov't official meets Aung San Suu Kyi
Myanmar high-ranking gov't official meets Aung San Suu Kyi
09:53, December 10, 2009 
Email | Print | Subscribe | Comments | Forum 
Myanmar Liaison Minister U Aung Kyi met with house-confined General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi, here Wednesday, the State Radio reported at night.
No details about their gathering were disclosed by the report.
The meeting between the pair was the third during this year after the prior two in October.
Since September this year, Aung San Suu Kyi has sent two letters to Senior-General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), proposing to work with the government in seeking removal of Western sanctions on Myanmar.
The last letter was dated Nov. 11.
The government appointed Labor Minister U Aung Kyi as the Liaison Minister concurrently on Oct. 8, 2007 to get link with SuuKyi and they have met for seven times since then.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 64, was convicted on charge of violating her terms of house arrest by harboring an American, John William Yettaw, who swam across the Inya Lake in Yangon and entered into her then restricted lakeside house for three days from May 3 to 5.
She was sentenced by a Yangon district court to three years' prison term on Aug. 11 but her terms were immediately commuted to one and a half years' term which was suspended for carrying out by onfinement to her residence according to an order of Than Shwe.
Although the Yangon divisional court rejected on Oct. 2 an appeal of Aung San Suu Kyi against her conviction, the Supreme Court agreed last week to start hearing a final appeal against heron Dec. 21, legal sources said.
<i>Source:Xinhua</i>
No details about their gathering were disclosed by the report.
The meeting between the pair was the third during this year after the prior two in October.
Since September this year, Aung San Suu Kyi has sent two letters to Senior-General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), proposing to work with the government in seeking removal of Western sanctions on Myanmar.
The last letter was dated Nov. 11.
The government appointed Labor Minister U Aung Kyi as the Liaison Minister concurrently on Oct. 8, 2007 to get link with SuuKyi and they have met for seven times since then.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 64, was convicted on charge of violating her terms of house arrest by harboring an American, John William Yettaw, who swam across the Inya Lake in Yangon and entered into her then restricted lakeside house for three days from May 3 to 5.
She was sentenced by a Yangon district court to three years' prison term on Aug. 11 but her terms were immediately commuted to one and a half years' term which was suspended for carrying out by onfinement to her residence according to an order of Than Shwe.
Although the Yangon divisional court rejected on Oct. 2 an appeal of Aung San Suu Kyi against her conviction, the Supreme Court agreed last week to start hearing a final appeal against heron Dec. 21, legal sources said.
<i>Source:Xinhua</i>
Special Coverage
Major headlines
Editor's Pick
Most Popular
Hot Forum Dicussion
