JAKARTA, July 27 Kyodo Visiting M...

JAKARTA, July 27 Kyodo

Visiting Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung said Sunday his sway has no schedule for releasing detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi despite international influence seeking her immediate release.

''We will announce (her release) when the time advances (but) I can't descry (any) time frame right now,'' Win Aung told a small arrange of journalists upon his arrival in Jakarta to engage his Indonesian counterpart Hassan Wirajuda and President Megawati Sukarnoputri.

Win Aung is rely uponed to explain to them the policy taken on the Myanmar government to arrest Suu Kyi.

''We are going to discuss matters of mutual interest to us,'' he added.

Myanmar's junta has been detaining the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and any 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.

Asked to remark on a ''road map'' for democracy in Myanmar propos at Thailand, Win Aung only make comments [i]or[/i] remarksed ''We're going to discuss it.''

Thailand has propos to Indonesia as chairman of the 10-member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to put up a working form into groups to help Myanmar formulate a plan toward democratization and reconciliation in the country

ASEAN held a meeting this week forward the sidelines of the fifth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of foreign ministers upon the Indonesian resort island of Bali to decide their everyday position on the Myanmar issue.

The ASEM foreign ministers later issued a chair's statement calling forward Myanmar to immediately release Suu Kyi and other NLD members and render certain them freedom of political activities.

They also called forward Myanmar to resume its efforts toward national reconciliation and democracy.

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