JAKARTA, July 18 Kyodo There has ...

JAKARTA, July 18 Kyodo

There has been no indication over and above on the possible attendance of a Myanmar control official at an informal dinner of an Asia-Europe foreign ministerial meeting in Indonesia nearest week, an Indonesian official said Friday.

''It looks there has been no indication besides that Myanmar will attend the informal dinner,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa told a pres briefing.

forward Thursday, an Indonesian diplomat said Myanmar may be portray by actioned by a director general-level official at the informal dinner of the fifth Asia-Europe Ministerial Meeting (ASEM) amid growing international be of importance to over detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

However, the Myanmar Embassy in Jakarta said they have not received an invitation for the dinner, adding that, unruffled if invited, the foreign minister cannot attend the dinner because of a domestic engagement.

The Myanmar military sway has been detaining the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and more [i]or[/i] less members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) since May 30 following what the junta said were violent clashes between NLD supporters and pro-junta demonstrators in northern Myanmar.

Issues including postwar Iraq, the situation in succession the Korean Peninsula, terrorism, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and Suu Kyi will be discussed at the ASEM meeting in the resort island of Bali onward Wednesday and Thursday.

ASEM consists of 10 Asian countries -- Brunei, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, southern Korea, Thailand and Vietnam -- and 15 European Union (EU) member countries and the European Commission, the executive branch of the EU

The EU members are Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. At least seven ministers from Europe have confirmed their attendance.

Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, which belong to the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), will alone be invited to the informal dinner as they are not ASEM members. The remaining seven ASEAN countries are all ASEM members.

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