UN special envoy due in Jakarta<\/p>\n
Agence France-Presse, Jakarta<\/p>\n
A UN special envoy will hold talks in Indonesia this weekend amid
\nheightened international pressure for the release of Myanmar's
\npro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.<\/p>\n
Special envoy on Myanmar Razali Ismail will hold informal
\ntalks with Minister of Foreign Affairs Hassan Wirayuda, ministry
\nspokesman Marty Natalegawa told AFP on Friday.<\/p>\n
Talks will focus on the situation in the military-ruled
\ncountry but are \"not directly\" connected to a plan by the
\nAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to send a
\ndelegation to Myanmar, Marty said.<\/p>\n
Indonesia, the grouping's new chairman, is due to lead the
\ndelegation. No time has been set for the visit.<\/p>\n
ASEAN foreign ministers meeting this month called for Suu
\nKyi's release, breaking a decades-old convention of non-
\ninterference in members' internal affairs.<\/p>\n
Myanmar's ruling junta announced on May 31 that the popular
\nleader had been detained. She was held after a junta-backed mob
\nattacked her supporters in violence feared to have left dozens
\ndead.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Razali told Japanese foreign minister Yoriko
\nKawaguchi that Suu Kyi was being detained in poor surroundings at
\na Yangon prison when he was allowed to meet her on June 10.<\/p>\n
Suu Kyi's detention has sparked outrage among the
\ninternational community, led by the United States and the
\nEuropean Union which have beefed up their sanctions against the
\nYangon regime.<\/p>\n
Japan, Myanmar's largest donor, on Wednesday announced it had
\nsuspended new economic aid to the impoverished country.<\/p>\n
Malaysia's foreign minister Syed Hamid Albar said on Thursday
\nthe detention of the Nobel laureate had damaged ASEAN's
\nreputation and was a setback for the region.<\/p>",
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