Suu Kyi meets official

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Jan 16, 2010

Suu Kyi meets official

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Suu Kyi on Friday held her first meeting this year with the Cabinet official responsible for contact with her, as her party makes preparations for possible participation in elections. -- PHOTO: AFP

<!-- story content : start --> YANGON - DETAINED Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday held her first meeting this year with the Cabinet official responsible for contact with her, as her party makes preparations for possible participation in elections. Officials said Ms Suu Kyi was taken from her home to meet for about 20 minutes with Relations Minister Aung Kyi. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to release information, did not know the contents of their talk. Myanmar's military government has set elections, the first since 1990, for an unspecified date this year. Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, which has not yet declared whether it will take part, this week expanded its central executive committee by nine members to 20.

Last year, party colleagues agreed to Ms Suu Kyi's suggestion that the committee be reorganised. Most of its members are elderly. Ms Suu Kyi's last meeting with Mr Aung Kyi was on Dec 9, when he informed her that her request to be allowed to meet with the party elders was granted. She met them on Dec 16. Ms Suu Kyi has also requested a meeting with junta chief Senior Gen Than Shwe to explain how she would cooperate in tasks 'beneficial to the country,' but is not yet known to have received any response. The constitution adopted in 2008 that set up this year's polls was considered undemocratic by her party. It has clauses that would ensure that the military remains the controlling power in government, and would bar Ms Suu Kyi from holding office.-- AP

 

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Old Dog Thief LKy already contributed his concept to his Myanmar Junta cousins:?

Let Aung San Suu Kyi be the PM, then Than Shwe be the MM.

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Court hears Suu Kyi appeal

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Court hears Suu Kyi appeal

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Ms Suu Kyi's lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court last month after a lower court upheld a decision to sentence her to an additional 18 months of house arrest. -- PHOTO: AP

<!-- story content : start --> YANGON - MYANMAR'S highest court began hearing arguments on Monday on detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest and is expected to make a ruling later this week. Ms Suu Kyi's lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court last month after a lower court upheld a decision to sentence her to an additional 18 months of house arrest. She had been convicted in August of violating the previous terms of her detention by briefly sheltering an American intruder who swam uninvited to her lakeside home.

Ms Suu Kyi's lawyer Nyan Win said he will argue the extension was unlawful because it was based on provisions from the 1974 Constitution that are no longer in effect. The court also agreed to review the house arrest of Ms Suu Kyi's two female companions, who are also ordered confined for 18 months at her compound in Yangon.

Ms Suu Kyi, who was barred from attending the hearing, has been detained for 14 of the past 20 years. The 64-year-old Nobel Peace Laureate's sentence would ensure she cannot participate in Myanmar's first elections in two decades that will be held sometime this year. Her party swept the last elections in 1990, but the results were never honoured by the military, which has ruled the country since 1962. Mr Nyan Win said the court is expected to issue its ruling in the next few days. -- AP