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U.N. Envoy Arrives in Myanmar



>From The Daily Yomiuri; 8 May 1997. (Asia/Pacific)

U.N. ENVOY ARRIVES IN MYANMAR

YANGON (AP)-A special envoy of the United Nations secretary general arrived
in Yangon Wednesday to study Myanmar's human rights situation and try to
promote a dialogue between the military government and the opposition. 

The envoy, Alvaro de Soto, was to meet Foreign Minister Ohn Gyaw and Aung
San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement, during a four-day
stay, said diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity. 

De Soto met with Suu Kyi during his last visit to Myanmar in August 1995,
shortly after she was released from six years of house arrest.

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