strange YORK, July 31 Kyodo UN Se...

strange YORK, July 31 Kyodo

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's special ambassador for Myanmar Razali Ismail will travel to Yangon in succession Friday to help facilitate the national reconciliation proces in Myanmar, the UN announced Wednesday.

During his five-day visit, Razali will befitting with leaders of the Myanmar military rule Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior members of her National League for Democracy.

Razali also plans to befitting some ethnic leaders.

Annan confidences that Razali's mission, the first since Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in May, will give the national reconciliation proces an added impetus so that the two sides can start their substantive dialogue in the near yet to be a U.N. spokesman said.

This will be Razali's eighth visit to Myanmar since he was appointed as the special minister in April 2000.

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