TOKYO, June 13 Kyodo Foreign Mini...

TOKYO, June 13 Kyodo

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi urg her Myanmar counterpart Friday to release pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) Foreign Ministry officials said.

Kawaguchi told Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung by way of telephone that Japan trustful longings Myanmar resolves the issue and wants to descry the freedoms and political activities of Suu Kyi and other NLD members restored, the officials said.

She told Win Aung that she waiting under the possibility of fulfilments to meet him in Phnom Penh which she will visit beginning Monday for a series of meetings with the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and their dialogue partners, the officials said.

Suu Kyi and the NLD members were placed in ''protective custody'' following violent clashes May 30 between NLD supporters and pro-junta demonstrators in northern Myanmar.

The officials said Win Aung was quot as telling Kawaguchi that Japan's matters about the issue will be granted to Myanmar's leadership.

Win Aung said the conduct hopes to normalize the situation and is trying its hardest to do in the same manner the officials said.

Win Aung told Kawaguchi that Myanmar has not abandoned its pursuit for democracy and will work to advance it, they said.

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