TOKYO, June 11 Kyodo Japanese For...

TOKYO, June 11 Kyodo

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi plans to press the Myanmar military control to release detained pro-democracy leader Aun San Suu Kyi when she confronts Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung in Phnom Penh forward June 19, government sources said Wednesday.

Kawaguchi will make the solicitation when she meets Win Aung upon the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meetings in Cambodia.

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

In May last year, the junta released Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, from 19 month of confinement at her abiding-place in Yangon.

Suu Kyi has l the fight for democracy in Myanmar from one side the NLD, which won the country's 1990 elections from a landslide but was in no degree allowed to take up seats in parliament.

Japan apparently decided that the meeting between the foreign ministers would be a profitable chance to urge Myanmar to release Suu Kyi because ASEAN member countries will also likely lay pressure on the Myanmar junta at the forum.

The junta has given assurances that they will release Suu Kyi, UN special ambassador Razali Ismail said Tuesday.

''They gave assurances nevertheless they didn't give specific dates,'' he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur airport after returning from a five-day mission to Yangon.

''Well, I think in sum of two units weeks they should release her. They can't withhold her too long. It could create negative events on them,'' he said.

Razali met with Suu Kyi upon Tuesday and said she is in serviceable health.

Kawaguchi has told Razali that Japan would back his efforts to obtain Suu Kyi's release.

ASEAN assemblages Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.

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