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Suu Kyi meets UN envoy

AFP, Yangon
Myanmar's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday met with visiting UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari, officials said, as the nation's junta rebuffed global pressure to reform its election
Aung San Suu Kyi spoke with Gambari for about one hour and 20 minutes at a military facility near her home, Myanmar officials said.
She was taken to and from the meeting in a convoy that picked her up at her house in Yangon, where the 62-year-old Nobel peace prize winner has spent 12 of the last 18 years under arrest.
Officials declined to provide any information about their talks. Normally Gambari only discusses his meetings after leaving the country.
The UN envoy earlier held talks with top officials from her National League for Democracy (NLD) and later met with officials from a projunta party and a civil group set up by the regime known as the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA).
NLD leaders dodged reporters after their talks with Gambari, which came one day after the junta's blunt refusal to give the NLD a role in a constitutional
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referendum planned in May and multi-party elections set for 2010.
If held, the elections would be the first since Aung San Suu Kyi led the NID to a landslide victory in 1990 polls, a result never recognised by the regime.
The new constitution would bar Aung San Suu Kyi from future elections because of her marriage to a foreigner, the late Briton Michael Aris.
A new law governing the referendum also sharply limits her party’s ability to campaign by criminalising public speeches and leaflets about the vote.
Western countries have decried Myanmar's vote plans for failing to include the NLD, and Gambari arrived here Thursday on a mission to press the regime to open up the process.
Analysts also warn thejunta could tighten its grip on power by turning the USDA into a political party ahead of the 2010 elections. The organisation claims to have more than 20 million members out of the coun-
try’s 54 million people.
Information minister Brigadier General Kyaw Hsan told Gambari during more than two hours of talks on Friday that the junta would not make any changes to the proposed charter.
"The constitution has already been drafted and it should not be amended again," said Kyaw Hsan, whose lengthy comments were reported in detail by state media.
The minister also accused Gambari of bias in favour of Aung San Suu Kyi, blasting him for releasing a letter from her after his last visit here in November.