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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

(Newser) – 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.

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...
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...   (Associated Press)
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...
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...   (Associated Press)
Aung San Suu Kyi, detained leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), is seen during a meeting with newly-appointed Myanmar Liaison Minister Aung Kyi at the state guest house in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007.(AP Photo/Myanmar News Agency via Xinhua)
Aung San Suu Kyi, detained leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), is seen during a meeting with newly-appointed Myanmar Liaison Minister Aung Kyi at the state guest house in Yangon, Myanmar,...   (Associated Press)
Detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, is greeted by U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari during their meeting, in Yangon, Myanmar Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007. Gambari made progress during his six-day mission in Myanmar in promoting a dialogue between the military government and Suu Kyi, the world body...
Detained Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, is greeted by U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari during their meeting, in Yangon, Myanmar Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007. Gambari made progress during his...   (Associated Press)
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