DETAINED Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks with a member of the ruling junta for more than an hour yesterday, state television said.
It said nothing about what she discussed with Aung Kyi, who was appointed go-between after the United Nations sent a special envoy to Burma to promote reconciliation and reform in the wake of the army's crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
Ms Suu
Kyi was taken from her villa, which has been her prison for the last four years, to a state guesthouse to meet Aung Kyi.
A security source said the 62-year-old Nobel laureate had been returned to her lakeside villa, where she has spent more than 11 of the past 18 years under house arrest.
Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, which won a 1990 election by a landslide, only to be denied power by the military, said it did not know what had happened at the guesthouse, where she had earlier met UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari.
Aung Kyi, a trusted regime fixer, was appointed two weeks ago after Mr Gambari flew in at the height of a crackdown on the biggest protests in two decades with a message from the UN Security Council telling the generals to talk to Ms Suu Kyi.
Junta leader Senior General Than Shwe then made a highly conditional offer of talks with Ms Suu Kyi, though many doubt his sincerity.
On the latest leg of a regional tour to build a united Asian diplomatic front against the junta, Mr Gambari held talks with China's rulers. However, Beijing gave no sign it was willing to exert tougher pressure.
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