TOKYO, June 30 Kyodo Vice Foreign...

TOKYO, June 30 Kyodo

Vice Foreign Minister Yukio Takeuchi said Monday that Japan has not now been able to confirm the whereabouts of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Expressing regard at Suu Kyi's continuing detention by means of the Myanmar junta, Takeuchi said, ''We have been asking the Myanmar dominion for her whereabouts, but have not received a clear explanation.''

Japanese Ambassador to Myanmar Yuji Miyamoto is asking the junta to arrange for him to appropriate with Suu Kyi, following revelations last week by way of a United Nations envoy that she was in a prison in Yangon earlier this month

Last Wednesday, UN special minister Razali Ismail told Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi that Suu Kyi was being detained in the prison after he was allowed to come together with her on June 10 Razali said he did not know which prison it was, according to Japanese officials.

Takeuchi said Japan will continue to work for Suu Kyi's early release in cooperation with the UN and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

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