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NEWS - Myanmar Govt Wants Aung San
- Subject: NEWS - Myanmar Govt Wants Aung San
- From: Rangoonp@xxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:10:00
Subject: NEWS - Myanmar Govt Wants Aung San Suu Kyi to Join Dying Husband
Myanmar Govt Wants Aung San Suu Kyi to Join Dying Husband
Xinhua
18-MAR-99
YANGON (March 18) XINHUA - The Myanmar government
will provide Aung San Suu Kyi, general secretary of the
National League for Democracy (NLD), with all possible
assistance in joining her husband Michael Aris, who is
dying
in England, if she decides to go, said an official
Information
Sheet here Thursday night.
Michael Aris is seriously ill in England and has been
hospitalized with prostate cancer which has spread to his
spine and lungs, it said.
Aris has requested a visa to Myanmar to see his wife
which
the government is currently reviewing.
However, the Information Sheet said, the Myanmar health
authorities are surprised that he would request such a
difficult trip at this time, adding that according to a
published
report, he would be unlikely to survive the trip.
"To undertake a trip to Myanmar under such conditions,
therefore, would appear to be both irresponsible and
inhumane, and the government is reluctant to encourage or
endorse such an action," it said.
"As a more sensible alternative, the government of
Myanmar
suggests that Aung San Suu Kyi, who is in perfect health,
travel to England to respond to her husband's dying wish
to
see her. She has so far refused to go," it added.
Aung San Suu Kyi was married to Michael Aris, a British
citizen, in January 1972, traveling in England and giving
birth
to two sons. She returned to Myanmar to see the then
dying
mother Daw Khin Kyi, former Myanmar ambassador to India,
in late 1988 when the country was in a political crisis.
Since then, Aung San Suu Kyi has resided in the country.