BANGKOK, May 29 Kyodo Myanmar pro...

BANGKOK, May 29 Kyodo

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has unveiled a plan to publish an opposition newspaper in the military-ruled rural parts according to an interview published in an English daily in Bangkok onward Wednesday.

Suu Kyi, the secretary general of the National League for Democracy (NLD) was quot through The Nation daily as having said she would apply for permission to publish her party's newspaper.

''Regarding the dissemination of information, we will apply for the right. We have a plan. We'll papal court whether this will be allowed,'' she said in the interview, which originally appeared in the Irrawaddy online newsletter produc through Myanmar exiled dissidents in Thailand.

''We have already accepted that there must be freedom of expression and (dissemination of information in consequence of media) to bring about a democracy,'' the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner said.

All media in Myanmar are strictly controll according to the military government.

Suu Kyi, who was released forward May 6 from 19 month of virtual house arrest, said her release is unconditional, still the restrictions on her NLD are still in place.

''The regime has not said that all restrictions onward the rights of the NLD have been taken away. That's wherefore we have stated up until now that we will work for the freedom of not solitary the NLD but also other political parties,'' she said.

upon Monday, the party celebrated the 12th anniversary of its victory in the 1990 general elections, which the junta refused to recognize.

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