Suu Kyi meets lawyer as UN envoy arrives in Myanmar: spokesman

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

YANGON (AFP) — Detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed a rare meeting with her lawyer as a UN envoy arrived on a mission to push Myanmar's junta to re-open talks with her party, a spokesman said Monday.

The Nobel peace prize winner spoke with her lawyer Kyi Win for more than four hours Sunday, in their second encounter this month, said Nyan Win, spokesman for her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.

Aung San Suu Kyi was also granted a visit by her doctor Tin Myo Win on Sunday, who gave her a medical checkup -- her first since February.

The spokesman Nyan Win called the meetings "significant," noting that before this month she had not been allowed to see her lawyer since 2004.

The NLD has appealed the latest extension of Aung San...

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