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Myanmar Talks Called Progress

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 10, 2007

UNITED NATIONS - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met leaders of her opposition party for the first time in three years Friday and told them she was optimistic that a two-decade-long stalemate with the Myanmar government might be thawing, her spokesman said.

Suu Kyi and three colleagues from the National League for Democracy also met with a government official, Aung Kyi, to prepare for talks with senior leaders of Myanmar's junta.
Party spokesman Nyan Win, who attended the talks, quoted Suu Kyi as saying she thought, "The ruling authorities have the will for national reconciliation," according to news reports from the capital, Yangon.

The meetings are a small but significant change in the government's dealings with Suu Kyi, who has been in detention for 12 of the last 18 years and has not been allowed to meet with her party since 2004.

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