Aung San Suu Kyi 'Not Satisfied' With Burmese Military Talks

January 30, 2008 11:28 a.m. EST

Rangoon, Burma (AHN) - Burmese detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is "not satisfied" by recent discussion with the country's military leaders, party spokesperson said.

Suu Kyi made the statement during a rare meeting with top members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.

The Nobel peace prize winner was taken this afternoon from her lakeside villa on Rangoon's University Avenue, where she has spent 12 of the past 18 years under house arrest, to the meeting venue.

She was taken from her home in an official convoy to a military facility, where she met for about 90 minutes with eight NLD officials, and then for 45 minutes with the junta's liaison officer, according to the party spokesman Nyan Win.

Labor Minister of Burma, officially known as Myanmar, Aung Kyi was appointed to negotiate with Suu Kyi amid the global outrage which followed the deadly crackdown on political protestors in September 2007.

The spokesman also read out a statement from Aung San Suu Kyi, who said she cherished her supporters' sacrifices and urged the public to remain patient. "So far we have not received any clear message from the government," she said in the statement.

The meeting, which came as a surprise, is the second such permitted gathering since the Burmese democracy icon was last detained in May 2003.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi previously met party leaders on November 9,2007.