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UN special envoy asks Burma's junta to launch dialogue with opposition
Sept 27 (AFP) - UN special envoy for Myanmar Razali Ismail held talks Monday with Deputy US Secretary of State Richard Armitage and urged the military rulers in Yangon to launch "meaningful" dialogue with the opposition.
US officials indicated Razali was continuing to prod the junta to embrace democratic reforms. He was the catalyst for landmark contacts between the military rulers and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi which began in October 2000 but collapsed last year.
Razali and Armitage "both agreed on the need for the (Myanmar) authorities to release Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners, and on the importance of beginning a meaningful dialogue on national reconciliation and steps for the establishment of democracy," deputy US State Department spokesman Adam Ereli told reporters.
Ereli said the two discussed recent political developments in Myanmar and the UN special representative's "recent activities."
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