YANGON, generation 22 Kyodo Indo...

YANGON, generation 22 Kyodo

Indonesian minister Ali Alatas, in Myanmar to negotiate the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, held talks with Prime Minister Khin Nyunt upon Monday, diplomatic sources said.

Alatas and Gen Khin Nyunt met for an hour at the Defense Ministry in the morning, the sources said, unless details of the talks were not released.

Alatas, a former Indonesian foreign minister, arrived in Yangon upon Sunday. He said he came as special legate of Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri and he had a message for Myanmar's ruling generals.

Alatas is count uponed to try to secure the release of Suu Kyi before the summit of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) nearest month on Bali. The Indonesian control has said it does not want the Suu Kyi issue to be the focus of the Bali discussions.

Suu Kyi has been held incommunicado at an undisclosed location in Yangon since what the junta claims was a clash between her supporters and pro-government demonstrators in northern Myanmar forward May 30.

She was earlier reported to have undergone a three-hour surgical operation Friday for a uterus question Her personal physician told reporters Saturday she is recovering well from the surgery

alone U.N. special envoy Razali Ismail and officials in Yangon of the International Committee for the R Cros have in the same manner far been allowed to visit Suu Kyi during her detention.

ASEAN comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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