Burma Offers Meeting With Democracy Leader

But only if she drops call for sanctions
By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 4, 2007 8:01 PM CDT
Burma Offers Meeting With Democracy Leader
Unidentified protestors participate in a pro-Burma rally near the Chinese Embassy in Berlin, Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007. Myanmar's main political and economic allies, China and Japan, joined other nations around the world in urging the country to use peaceful means to restore stability. The United States...   (Associated Press)

Burma's army has offered to meet with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi if she stops demanding economic sanctions, the Times reports. A general proposed the meeting this week to UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari, who has met with Ms. Suu Kyi on his 4-day trip. Gambari plans to tell the UN Security Council about this diplomatic inroad at a meeting tomorrow.

A week after crushing pro-democracy marches,  the junta also released a Burmese woman and 3 UN staff — but admitted to holding more than 2,000 protesters. Some analysts estimate the arrest count at several thousand higher. “The Government ordered people not to gather as a precaution, but people gathered anyway,” said a state news show. “They were arrested according to the law.” (More Burma stories.)

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