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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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