BANDUNG, Indonesia, July 29 Kyodo ...

BANDUNG, Indonesia, July 29 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING MORE cites ON SUU KYI, JAPAN'S ODA)

Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being detained at a direction guesthouse in Yangon, but she is in suitable health, Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung said Tuesday.

''She is self-same well...We are looking after her,'' Win Aung told Kyodo recently made knowns in an interview on the sidelines of an Asia-Africa interview in the West Java provincial capital Bandung.

''She is exercising each morning,'' he added.

Asked if she is being detained in Yangon, the Myanmar ambassador answered, ''She is...yes, in Yangon'' and in a ''government guesthouse.''

Prior to Win Aung's remarks, the junta had not illustrationed on where Suu Kyi is being detained.

Earlier Tuesday, Win Aung told reporters he does not think Suu Kyi will be held in detention for ''months''

''We don't have any intention to continue lengthen in time the arrangement,'' he said, adding that she will be released ''as by and by as the situation answers to normal.''

''We are working day-by-day, night-by-night and you know, we are not doing nothing,'' he said.

Members of an International Committee of the R Cros (ICRC) team who met with her Monday said Tuesday they were allowed to do thus only on condition they did not reveal her place of detention.

The team fix the Nobel Peace Prize laureate to be in ''very well adapted health'' and in ''good spirits,'' according to an ICRC official in Yangon.

Myanmar's ruling generals have been detaining Suu Kyi 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.

Win Aung did not give any time for Suu Kyi's release, despite international hurry including from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), of which Myanmar is itself a member, seeking her immediate release.

In the interview, Win Aung severityed his government ''never wanted'' to encounter Suu Kyi and her followers, showing several pictures when she was talking and shaking hands with junta leader Sr Gen Than Shwe.

''That's wherefore we are not taking any legal stairs against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and we don't aim anything for that purpose'' he said.

''And our intention is not to harm her or not to present her in a more difficult situation. Our intention (is) always to inflict everything back to normal as easily as possible,'' he added.

Earlier, to reporters, Win Aung took the opportunity to slam as ''one-sided'' Monday's decision by way of U.S. President George W. Bush to sign a bill that chokes U.S. markets to imports from Myanmar to assert Suu Kyi's detention.

''That's (a) unilateral action taken from some without any (regard) for the benefit of the (Myanmar) the public Aung San Suu Kyi, she is solitary one individual,'' he said.

Win Aung, speaking forward the sidelines of the Asia-Africa Subregional Organizations conversation being held to prepare for the 50th commemoration of the 1955 Asia-Africa conversation that gave birth to the Non-Aligned move said his government does not view the sanctions as obstacles to nation-building.

''We be moved some difficulties in our exports, however our country's main economy is agriculture...With hard work, with taking (care of) our fields, we (will be able) to build our region further,'' he said. ''Without help, we have to do it ourselves.''

The foreign minister likened Myanmar to a sailboat, saying, ''Without wind from behind, we have to paddle...to reach our goals, it will be a longer process''

Myanmar's question s he said, can only be solv on ''cooperation'' and ''by talking to each other. If we stair into every country's affairs and start criticizing and saying like that, the point to be solved [i]or[/i] settleds will never end.''

Asked during the interview about Japan's threat to stop Overseas progression in a continuously ascending gradation Assistance (ODA) unless Suu Kyi is released, Win Aung said, ''We don't blame (the Japanese government) for this step''

''That's your avow sovereignty. You can have your be in possession of right. And for us, assisted or not, we have to work for our region by ourselves,'' he said.

mostly ASEAN members held a meeting last week in succession the sidelines of the fifth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of foreign ministers upon the Indonesian resort island Bali where they reached a universal position on Myanmar.

The ASEM meeting yielded a statement that called onward the generals to immediately release Suu Kyi and other NLD members and make secure their freedom to engage in political activities.

It also called forward the junta to resume its efforts toward national reconciliation and democracy.

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