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Fri, 08/19/2011 - 16:41
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Suu Kyi meets Myanmar President Thein Sein
BANGKOK, Aug. 19 Kyodo - Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi met with Myanmar President Thein Sein in the administrative capital Naypyitaw on Friday, the first contact between the Nobel peace laureate and a top leader in the military-dominated government since 2002.
According to Myanmar government sources, the meeting took place at the presidential office. Other details of the meeting were not immediately known.
Suu Kyi arrived in Naypyitaw from Yangon earlier in the day to attend a government-organized workshop on economic reform, yet another sign of a thaw in her relations with the military-dominated government.
Thein Sein was also scheduled to attend the three-day forum.
This is the first time for Suu Kyi to participate in a government-organized forum since her release from seven years of house arrest in November.
Thein Sein, prime minister under the previous military government, took office as president on March 30 and has vowed to promote national reconciliation.
''Any individuals and organizations in the nation that have different views from the government should not take account of disagreements and we invite them to work with us for common goals in the national interests,'' the president said Wednesday in a speech carried by state-run media.
''Our country has favorable conditions, our country will be a developed one soon if we are united and work hard together. Our country belongs to all of us,'' he said.
Suu Kyi has twice met with Labor and Relief Affairs Minister Aung Kyi, the government's point man, since July 25.
Aung Kyi and Suu Kyi issued a joint statement after their second meeting in Yangon last Friday that they have agreed to refrain from confrontation and to cooperate toward the country's democratization.
Myanmar government sources said Suu Kyi was driven from her home in Yangon to Naypyitaw in a government-provided car.
She was not accompanied by her aides or bodyguards in her trip to Naypyitaw, the sources said.
According to Myanmar government sources, the meeting took place at the presidential office. Other details of the meeting were not immediately known.
Suu Kyi arrived in Naypyitaw from Yangon earlier in the day to attend a government-organized workshop on economic reform, yet another sign of a thaw in her relations with the military-dominated government.
Thein Sein was also scheduled to attend the three-day forum.
This is the first time for Suu Kyi to participate in a government-organized forum since her release from seven years of house arrest in November.
Thein Sein, prime minister under the previous military government, took office as president on March 30 and has vowed to promote national reconciliation.
''Any individuals and organizations in the nation that have different views from the government should not take account of disagreements and we invite them to work with us for common goals in the national interests,'' the president said Wednesday in a speech carried by state-run media.
''Our country has favorable conditions, our country will be a developed one soon if we are united and work hard together. Our country belongs to all of us,'' he said.
Suu Kyi has twice met with Labor and Relief Affairs Minister Aung Kyi, the government's point man, since July 25.
Aung Kyi and Suu Kyi issued a joint statement after their second meeting in Yangon last Friday that they have agreed to refrain from confrontation and to cooperate toward the country's democratization.
Myanmar government sources said Suu Kyi was driven from her home in Yangon to Naypyitaw in a government-provided car.
She was not accompanied by her aides or bodyguards in her trip to Naypyitaw, the sources said.
