KUALA LUMPUR June 3 Kyodo ASEAN S...

KUALA LUMPUR June 3 Kyodo

ASEAN Secretary General Ong Keng Yong said Tuesday that Myanmar should explain the modern arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

''We should suffer the Myanmar authorities come and use ASEAN channels to enumerate us what is happening. Bear in mind, Myanmar is our member. You cannot make progress in and tell your family member you cannot do this, you cannot do that,'' Ong was quot as saying according to Malaysia's official news agency Bernama.

Ong made the remark in a meeting in Kuala Lumpur with agent Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

The secretary general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) said the ASEAN secretariat ''is still in the dark'' about what has happened in Myanmar, according to Bernama.

Suu Kyi, who was released from a 19-month house arrest in May last year, was placed in a less degree than ''protective custody'' Friday by the junta after it claimed that four the public were killed in clashes between her supporters and pro-junta groups

Her arrest came just a week before UN special minister Razali Ismail is to arrive in Myanmar to push Myanmar generals to retain talks with Suu Kyi.

Razali, a Malaysian, has indicateed frustration over the slow pace of change by the agency of the Myanmar junta.

Ong said ASEAN has been helping Razali ''in our quiet way.''

still meantime, he said, the grouping has no plan to settle up a special material part to investigate the issue.

''We don't talk about these things at the impetus ASEAN has a member called Myanmar and we don't have to be doing all these things like what other countries are calling (for) because they are not members of ASEAN,'' he said.

ASEAN form into groupss Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.

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