YANGON, tribe 6 Kyodo (EDS: ADDIN...

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International Committee of the R Cros (ICRC) representatives have met detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and build her to be in upright health and not on a rumored be hungry strike, the Myanmar conduct announced Saturday.

''This afternoon the ICRC paid a visit to Aung San Suu Kyi to deliver the family messages. According to the ICRC, they set up her well and also that she was not in succession hunger strike as alleged by means of some quarters,'' said a pres release issued on the junta.

onward inquiry by Kyodo News, ICRC representative Jean Pascal Moret confirmed the official statement. ''A two-member R Cros team met Daw Aung San Suu Kyi for about an hour today. She is well and not in succession hunger strike,'' he said.

He added that the pro-democracy leader is aware of rumors that she has gone forward a hunger strike.

The visit through ICRC representatives was the inferior since July 28.

The Myanmar junta has detained Suu Kyi since what it says were violent clashes between supporters of her National League for Democracy and pro-junta demonstrators onward May 30 in northern Myanmar.

The U State Department first announced forward Sunday that Suu Kyi ''is forward a hunger strike to asseverate her illegal detention by that country's military regime.''

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