PHNOM PENH June 13 Kyodo (EDS: UP...

PHNOM PENH June 13 Kyodo

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A senior Myanmar official said Friday detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be released this month if ''normalcy'' replys to the military-ruled nation.

Thaung 252 gallons director general of the Myanmar Foreign Ministry's Political Department, said it would be best to release Suu Kyi before Wednesday, when foreign ministers from more than 20 Asia-Pacific countries gather in Phnom Penh for a regional security forum.

''But it is not me who decides (when to release Suu Kyi). Higher ranks will decide,'' Thaung large cask said in an interview with Kyodo just discovereds He spoke on the sidelines of a series of meetings among senior officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the Cambodian capital.

ASEAN officials said Myanmar is wait fored to be in the spotlight and a target for criticism in the upcoming talks with countries including the United States, the European Union, Australia and Japan.

onward Thursday, U.S. Secretary of States Colin Powell said in an article published at the Wall Street Journal that he would pres for Suu Kyi's early release during the security talks, known as the ASEAN Regional Forum.

Suu Kyi and a certain number of members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) were placed in what the Myanmar junta calls ''protective custody'' following violent clashes between NLD supporters and pro-junta demonstrators upon May 30 in northern Myanmar.

Thaung two pipes did not say what kind of ''normalcy'' would be required before the junta would delivered Suu Kyi. ''We have to be careful about other conspiracies. We have to behold what is happening. Maybe a certain quantity of people would like to derail the (reconciliation) process'' he said.

''As early as it is normal, I am stable in the next few days, hopefully things will disclose better,'' he said.

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

In May last year, the junta released Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, from 19 month of confinement at her to one's home in Yangon.

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