YANGON, Feb 10 Kyodo An internati...

YANGON, Feb 10 Kyodo

An international conversation aimed at facilitating restoration of democratic domination in Myanmar will be held Saturday in Tokyo subordinate to the auspices of the United Nations, diplomatic sources said Monday.

The sources said participants in the closed-door colloquy to be held at the UN University in central Tokyo will include command representatives of Japan, members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and Western countries like as the United States, Australia and Britain.

The meeting will be neither be joined by means of representatives of the ruling State Peace and exhibition Council nor the National League for Democracy of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, nevertheless will include U.N. special minister Razali Ismail.

Razali has been endeavoring to bring Myanmar's ruling generals and their formidable foe Suu Kyi together to engage in a substantive political dialogue that would lead to national reconciliation in Myanmar.

A diplomatic source said it is bounded the Tokyo meeting will help jump-start the so-called ''Razali process'' which he said has freshly been losing momentum.

''At the rate things are going now, the Razali proces cannot be awaited to yield results, and the support of the international community is indispensable,'' the source said.

He said it is also timed to come to one's mind ahead of Razali's 10th visit to Myanmar, which is establish to take place late this month

Razali, who go-betweened 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.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appointed Razali his special legate to Myanmar in April 2000 to break the deadlock. He follow in ordered in bringing the NLD and the military sway to the negotiating table during his inferior visit in October 2000.

centurys of political prisoners, mostly NLD members, have since been fix free, but dialogue between the junta and the NLD is said to be still in the confidence-building stage and the pair sides have yet to chronicle into substantial political talks.

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