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| Aung San Suu Kyi meets UN envoy | |
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| Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has left her house for a meeting with a visiting UN envoy, reports say. | |
| Ms Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, was seen leaving in an official convoy for the state guest house where the envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, is staying. | Ms Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, was seen leaving in an official convoy for the state guest house where the envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, is staying. |
| Mr Gambari is currently in Burma to mediate between the military government and opposition. | Mr Gambari is currently in Burma to mediate between the military government and opposition. |
| It is his third visit since last year's government crackdown on protests led by the country's revered Buddhist monks. | It is his third visit since last year's government crackdown on protests led by the country's revered Buddhist monks. |
| Mr Gambari earlier met other members of Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), along with representatives of ethnic minorities and non-governmental organisations. | |
| The five NLD members are said to have expressed the need for more talks with the military government and the release of political prisoners. | |
| On Friday, Mr Gambari met government leaders, who told him they would only be willing to meet Ms Suu Kyi if she stopped calling for sanctions against Burma and dropped her "confrontational attitude". | |
| The government is holding a referendum on constitutional reform in May and says this is part of a process leading to democratic elections in 2010. | |
| The NLD won elections in 1990, but the government refused to recognise the result. Ms Suu Kyi has been in detention for 12 of the last 18 years. | |
| The suppression of protests last September by Buddhist monks calling for democracy led to world-wide condemnation. |