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Burma Junta Nixes Talks With UN, Dissident

Suu Kyi must drop sanction support; UN not making progress

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 7, 2007 3:26 PM CST

(Newser) – The junta ruling Myanmar—formerly Burma—today rejected a UN proposal for three-way talks that would have included detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Agence France-Presse reports. It is the latest disappointment to mar the visit of UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari, in which he has... Read full story »

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