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I had a good lunch with the good la
- Subject: I had a good lunch with the good la
- From: Winston_Lee@xxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 14:36:00
Philippine foreign minister met Burma's
Suu Kyi
11:34 a.m. Oct 23, 1997 Eastern
MANILA, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Philippine
Foreign
Secretary Domingo Siazon said on Thursday
he had
met with Burmese opposition leader Aung
San Suu
Kyi in her Rangoon home last week but
declined to
give details of their talks.
``I had a good lunch with the good
lady,'' Siazon told
the Senate finance committee during a
public hearing
on the government budget. He did not
elaborate.
Siazon is this year's chairman of the
Association of
South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) standing
committee and is believed to be the most
senior
ASEAN official to meet Suu Kyi since the
group
admitted Burma as a member in July.
Siazon accompanied President Fidel Ramos
on the
Philippine leader's visit to Rangoon last
week.
Siazon told reporters that Rangoon's
ruling State Law
and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) and
Suu
Kyi's main opposition National League for
Democracy (NLD) needed to talk to solve
the
country's problems.
``They have to talk. They have to restart
(the talks)
even at the lower level. It's better that
they are talking
so that in the end they can find a
Burmese solution to
their own problems.''
``Of course, in the beginning you ask for
the moon,''
he added.
The SLORC released Suu Kyi, winner of the
1991
Nobel Peace Prize, from six years house
arrest in
Rangoon in July 1995.
The NLD won a landslide election victory
in 1990 but
the SLORC never recognised it.
ASEAN groups Brunei, Burma, Indonesia,
Laos,
Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore,
Thailand and
Vietnam.