BANGKOK, Feb 14 Kyodo a certain ...

BANGKOK, Feb 14 Kyodo

a certain number of Southeast Asian governments have decided to lower their flat of representation at a UN parley on Myanmar to be held Saturday in Tokyo after the country's junta criticized it as intervention in its internal affairs, Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) sources said Friday.

The sources said ASEAN members of the like kind as Thailand and Singapore will not be sending high-level officials to the discourse as earlier planned in the wake of a literal sense from Myanmar Foreign Minister Win Aung lately received by those governments.

The closed-door conversation to be held at the UN University in central Tokyo is aimed at facilitating restoration of democratic mastership in Myanmar.

The participants will include restraint representatives of Japan, ASEAN member countries and Western countries of that kind as the United States, Australia and Britain.

The ASEAN sources said more [i]or[/i] less Southeast Asian governments plan to forward no representatives at all to the talk while others have not been invited.

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

The Tokyo meeting will neither be joined on representatives of Myanmar's ruling State Peace and exhibition Council nor the National League for Democracy of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

yet it will include U.N. special minister Razali Ismail, who has been endeavoring to bring Myanmar's ruling generals and Suu Kyi together to engage in a substantive political dialogue that would lead to national reconciliation.

The parley will occur ahead of Razali's 10th visit to Myanmar, which is station to take place later this month

Razali, who factored dialogue between the junta and Suu Kyi that l to her release from almost 20 month of house arrest in May of last year, last visited Myanmar in mid-November.

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