TOKYO, June 3 Kyodo The Myanmar j...

TOKYO, June 3 Kyodo

The Myanmar junta should hem in a dialogue with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whom it detained last week, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Tuesday.

''The situation does not expect good. We hope to call onward the government to shut up talks,'' Fukuda said at a pres meeting.

Myanmar's military dominion said Saturday that Suu Kyi and a certain members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) have been placed in ''protective custody.''

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Japan's measures to help Myanmar's ''democratization'' and to aid a market economy there will remain unchanged for the time being.

''More political prisoners are being released, and progres is being seen in democratization,'' Kawaguchi told a separate pres meeting. ''At this twinkling in time, we are not thinking of changing Japan's policies,'' she said.

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