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Burma denies Aung San Suu Kyi meeti
BURMA DENIES AUNG SAN SUU KYI MEETING
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Burma's ruling military regime has denied reports that
Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon met Burmese
opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a visit to
Rangoon last week.
The denial comes a day after diplomatic sources in Manila
and Rangoon said the Nobel laureate had visited the
Philippine embassy during a state visit to Burma by
Philippine President Fidel Ramos.
A senior military official in Rangoon says no such meeting
took place, while President Ramos told a news conference in
Manila that he "knew nothing about it".
The meeting would be the first between the head of Burma's
National League for Democracy and a leader from an
ASEAN nation.
[ABC News, 23 October 1997]
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