ILO team meets with Suu Kyi, officials

ILO team meets with Suu Kyi, officials

YANGON (AFP): An International Labour Organisation (ILO) team investigating the Myanmar junta's efforts to eradicate forced labour has met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and been given access to every minister concerned, sources said on Thursday.

The four-member ILO team, and seven experts accompanying it on the three-week mission, had a working lunch with Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday, an official source said.

Afterwards the ILO representatives held a meeting with ethnic minority parties including the Shan NLD (National League for Democracy), as part of a thorough briefing on labour conditions in Myanmar.

Talks with the Attorney General and the Chief Justice were also on the official itinerary which the Geneva-based United Nations body is keeping tightly under wraps.