Suu Kyi seeks meeting with junta chief
Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has sent a letter to the head of the country's ruling junta seeking a meeting to discuss how she can work for the national interest.
Nyan Win, a spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, said yesterday that in her letter last week to Senior Gen Than Shwe she also sought permission to meet at her home with other members of her party's central executive committee.
Suu Kyi's party has long sought a dialogue with the government, but its advances have mostly been spurned. The initiative by Suu Kyi comes as United States is promoting a new policy toward the military regime, seeking to engage it through high-level talks instead of isolating it with sanctions.
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