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The U.S. said ita s hopeful that political dialogue can begin in Myanmar between the military government and opposition parties after pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi wrote to junta chief Senior General Than Shwe .

The Obama Administration said that it is hopeful recent developments in Burma would lead to dialogue between the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese military junta.

" Thu Wei, the Chairman of the Democratic Party, one of the political parties keen on contesting the forthcoming election, on November 13 sent a letter to junta supremo Snr Gen.

YANGON: Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has requested a meeting with the military regime's top leader, adding to signs that lines of communication are opening up between her and the junta.

Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Tuesday after the announcement that Suu Kyi would be released soon, Nyan Win, the spokesman for the Rangoon-based National League for Democracy said, 'This is what many people wanted to hear.' 'It is going strengthen the NLD party if she is released.

Barack Obama today urged Burma to release the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a landmark meeting with the country's prime minister, Thein Sein.

Just the faint hope that Aung San Suu Kyi may be released soon has caused a stir of excitement among Burmese people.

Pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi appealed to Myanmar's top court against her extended house arrest, days ahead of a likely meeting involving the junta's premier and US President Barack Obama.

Amidst wide ranging speculation and applause over the new US-junta engagement, a group of activists, essentially known as a pro-junta student group, has lambasted the United States for interfering in Burma's internal affairs and for not having the right motives regarding Burma's political development.

Singapore a ' Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday urged Myanmar to begin planning for its 2010 elections and said Southeast Asian nations could play an important role in ensuring the vote is "free, fair and credible." Clinton, speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of the APEC meetings in Singapore, said Washington would like to ...

Comments made by a Burmese government official that detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi could soon be released have been greeted with skepticism by party members.

Burma's ruling junta has yet to disclose its plans for next year's election, but it's not too early to start asking if there is a chance, however remote, that the generals will allow the vote to be free and fair, and what can be done to make this happen.

Myanmar's military-ruled government may release pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi soon so she can play a role in next year's general elections, according to a senior Myanmar diplomat.

After many years of what seemed an intractable situation in Burma, the events of recent weeks have given some reason for hope, thanks mostly to the United State's new policy of engagement with the isolated regime.

A two-hour meeting in Rangoon Wednesday between a top American official and Burma's detained pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has significantly raised the level of diplomatic engagement between the United States and Burma.

US envoys who paid a rare visit to Burma say the new dialogue will be slow and cautious, but that the junta's plans to hold elections next year could disrupt the delicate process.

JAILED Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi must be allowed to participate in next year's elections for the world to accept the result, the US has said.

The visiting US delegation's talks with the Burmese regime, ethnic minority groups and the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has coincided this week with the news that the China gas pipeline project is finally under way in Arakan State.

A delegation of senior U.S. officials, pursuing a new dialogue, met with Myanmar's military rulers on Tuesday in the highest-level talks with the reclusive junta in 14 years.

A A A' Two senior U.S. officials headed Tuesday to Myanmar for the highest-level visit in more than a decade and talks billed as a key pivot in Washington's longtime stance of shunning the junta.