Suu Kyi: 'I Stand Ready to Cooperate'

Imprisoned opposition leader wants 'dialogue' with Burma's junta
By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 8, 2007 12:07 PM CST
Suu Kyi: 'I Stand Ready to Cooperate'
U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari delivers a press statement, Thursday Nov. 8, 2007 in Singapore. Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she is ready to cooperate with her country's junta to bring about national reconciliation, according to her statement released by a U.N. envoy on Thursday.(AP Photo/Wong...   (Associated Press)

Aung San Suu Kyi is ready to cooperate with Burma's military rulers, UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari announced today, reading a statement from the long-imprisoned opposition leader. “I stand ready to cooperate with the government in order to make this process of dialogue a success,” she wrote after the government said it would allow her a rare meeting with her party.

It’s the first such statement from Suu Kyi since she was imprisoned in 2003; she hasn't met members of her pro-democracy party since 2004. Though Gambari said he’d laid groundwork for “substantive dialogue,” his six-day trip gave few hopeful signs, the New York Times reports—junta leaders refused to meet with him and rejected his proposals for three-way reconciliation talks. (More Ibrahim Gambari stories.)

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