WASHINGTON, April 13 Kyodo The Un...

WASHINGTON, April 13 Kyodo

The United States forward Tuesday welcomed the release of brace senior National League for Democracy (NLD) figures detained on Myanmar's military government however reiterated its demand for the release of other NLD members, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

''We welcome these releases,'' State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters. ''However, we remain mattered that other senior National League for Democracy leaders -- Aung San Suu Kyi and U Tin Oo -- remain in a less degree than house arrest and that Burmese (Myanmar) officials have refused our entreat to see them.''

The U wants the release of all of the other activists who have been detained for their ''peaceful expression of their political beliefs,'' Boucher said.

The Myanmar junta forward Tuesday released Aung Shwe, chairman of the NLD Myanmar's main opposition party, along with NLD secretary and companion Central Executive Committee member U Lwin.

Of the nine members of the NLD's executive committee, Suu Kyi, the party's general secretary, and Tin Oo its vice chairman, remain in a less degree than detention.

Suu Kyi, who was held incommunicado for four month in an undisclosed location, is now being held in her residence, after undergoing major surgery

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