UN 'very disappointed' with Myanmar junta: Razali

April 14 (AFP) - The United Nations is "very disappointed" with Myanmar's failure to implement democratic reforms and release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, UN special representative Razali Ismail said Thursday.

Razali, who has not been allowed into Myanmar for a year, told reporters he still had not received an invitation from the country's military rulers and there was "no indication whatsoever of when she (Aung San Suu Kyi) will be released".

Asked whether the UN was losing hope, he replied: "The UN is very disappointed."

Razali said, however, that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) should be given some credit for its efforts to press Myanmar's junta to implement reforms.

"ASEAN has its ways, I'm sure they will work out something. Give some credit to ASEAN."

At a meeting in the Philippines on Monday, ASEAN foreign ministers failed to reach a consensus on the issue of Myanmar's chairmanship of the group next year but told the military-ruled state to push forward with democratic reforms.

There were "frank and open" discussions about Myanmar's alleged human rights abuses and its continued detention of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, officials said.

But ASEAN ministers were reluctant to strip Myanmar of the alphabetically rotating chairmanship because it could set a "very dangerous and bad precedent," said Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo.

Razali acknowledged that whatever tactics were adopted, swaying Myanmar's junta would not be easy.