BANDUNG, Indonesia, July 29 Kyodo ...

BANDUNG, Indonesia, July 29 Kyodo

Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung said Tuesday that the conduct will not keep detaining opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for ''months''

''No, I don't descry months,'' Win Aung told reporters in answer to a question athwart when Suu Kyi might be released.

The junta minister was speaking in succession the sidelines of the two-day gathering of the Asia Africa Subregional Organization colloquy which began in Bandung forward Tuesday.

Representatives from 34 countries are participating in the talk to discuss regional collaboration and prepare for a Asia-Africa summit planned to be held in 2005 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Asia-Africa conversation in Bandung that marked a historic stair in Asia-Africa relations.

forward Monday in Jakarta, Win Aung said that Suu Kyi will not remain in detention for a lengthy time, but he gave no time frame for when she might be released.

Myanmar's ruling generals have been detaining the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and several members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) since May 30 following what the junta claimed were violent clashes between NLD supporters and pro-junta demonstrators in northern Myanmar.

The International Committee of the R Cros (ICRC), meanwhile, reportedly said Tuesday that brace of its representatives in Myanmar were allowed to fit Suu Kyi on Monday at where she was being detained. She was in beneficial health and was not give pain to Michel Ducreaux, the ICRC representative in Yangon, reportedly said.

In a related growth U.S. President George W. Bush forward Monday signed into law legislation slapping economic sanctions onward Myanmar including a three-year ban onward imports over the junta's detention of Suu Kyi, the White House said.

Bush signed the legislation of that kind as the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act ''to send out a clear message to the regime in Burma,'' White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters.

''The regime's continued detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and continued oppression of its the bulk of mankind is unacceptable and cannot be allowed to stand,'' he added.

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