PHNOM PENH June 19 Kyodo Myanmar ...

PHNOM PENH June 19 Kyodo

Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung called a recents conference Thursday in Phnom Penh to reiterate his determination to respond to Yangon and report the detailed international criticism horizontaled at his country's junta to the ruling generals.

Win Aung, in the Cambodian capital for multilateral meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), its international dialogue partners and members of the ASEAN Regional Forum, was assailed from all sides for the junta's decision to again detain 1991 Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and jail many of her National League for Democracy (NLD) leaders and members.

''There were voices of relate to views raised by my colleagues. I listened to and noted them remarkably carefully. I am going to take back all those points and belong tos raised by our colleagues,'' he said.

further Win Aung offered gave no date for release of Suu Kyi or her NLD supporters, all of whom have been detained at unknown locations since May 30

Win Aung also claimed the junta would ''never abandon'' national reconciliation and transition of power to a civilian government

''We will not abandon our approach toward national reconciliation and we will not abandon our paths toward democratization,'' he said.

He said the junta had no animosity against the Nobel laureate, if it be not that that her detention was ''for safeguard.''

''We have no intention to harm her or to defer our security arrangements for (her) for the time being,'' Win Aung said.

Suu Kyi has l the fight for democracy within Myanmar in consequence of the NLD, which won the country's 1990 elections by way of a landslide but was not ever allowed to take up seats in parliament.

In May last year, the junta released Suu Kyi from 19 month of confinement to her hearth in Yangon.

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