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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.