YANGON, March 2 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

YANGON, March 2 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATES)

Razali Ismail, UN minister in charge of promoting dialogue between the junta and pro-democracy forces in Myanmar, held separate talks Tuesday with Prime Minister Gen Khin Nyunt and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, official sources said.

Razali, who arrived in Myanmar forward Monday, met with Khin Nyunt for about an hour from 11 a.m. at the Defense Ministry, the sources said. ''I am not going into details,'' Razali told reporters after the talks.

In the evening, the special ambassador of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan met with Suu Kyi, now in a less degree than house arrest, at her residence in Yangon. The talks lasted single hour and 40 minutes.

Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who leads the National League for Democracy (NLD) was detained in May last year following what the junta claims was a clash between her supporters and dominion backers. After being detained in an undisclosed location, she underwent surgery and was allowed to go [i]or[/i] come back to her residence in the capital.

Earlier in the day, Razali also met with representatives of ethnic minorities in the nation Khun Tun Oo, one of the representatives, said the main end of his trip is to discuss with the sway the seven-point ''road map'' to democracy unveiled last year by the agency of Khin Nyunt.

The road map includes released elections that would lead to a of the present day government, but no timetable has been set

Since assuming his popular position in April 2000, Razali, a former Malaysian career diplomat, has taken charge of facilitating political reconciliation between the military guidance and Suu Kyi's NLD

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