New Delhi (Mizzima) - Burma's opposition party – National League for Democracy – on Monday briefly met with detained party leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi prior to meeting with visiting United Nations special envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, sources said.
The NLD CEC was allowed a brief meeting for about fifteen minutes with Aung San Suu Kyi at a government guest house before meeting with Gambari.
The NLD's five central executive committee (CEC) members and Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday after their brief meeting, urged the visiting UN envoy Gambari to put more pressure on the government to release all political prisoners, to review on the constitution, and to recognize the 1990 election result and to convene the parliament.
The NLD last week have requested the government to allow them a meeting with detained Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi without which they will have nothing to tell the visiting UN envoy.
The tripartite meeting between Aung San Suu Kyi, NLD CEC and Gambari at the government guest house in Rangoon lasted for about an hour.
The meeting on Monday did not include senior party members and leading intellectual Win Tin and Khin Maung Swe, who were both released from long imprisonment in last September.
Sources said the Burmese Ministry of Home Affairs had categorically requested the NLD not to include Win Tin and Khin Maung Swe for the meetings on Monday.
During the informal press briefing, the NLD decline to answer whether their meeting with Gambari can be hope as positive step.
Gambari, who arrived Rangoon on Saturday, will be leaving for Naypyitaw, Burma's new Jungle capital, on Tuesday but it is still unclear whether he will be met by Junta leader Senior General Than Shwe, who also declined to meet him during his last visit in August.
During his earlier visit in August, detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi also refused to meet him.
Gambari on Saturday met with Burmese Foreign Minister Nyan Win and other UN official delegations in Rangoon. On Sunday, he met with liaison minister Aung Kyi, Information Minister Kyaw Hsan, Minister for Health Dr. Kyaw Myint, Commission for Holding Referendum, and pro-junta civilian organizations including Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) and other diplomats in Rangoon.
