NEWS - Myanmar Leader Meets U.N. Sp

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Myanmar Leader Meets U.N. Special Envoy

            Xinhua
            28-OCT-98

            YANGON (Oct. 28) XINHUA - First Secretary of the Myanmar
State
            Peace and Development Council Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt
met
            with visiting Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the
United
            Nations Alvaro de Soto here Wednesday. 

            Alvaro, Assistant Secretary-General of the U.N., arrived in
Yangon on
            Tuesday on his second four-day trip to Myanmar in this year
to look
            into the current political situation in the country. 

            He is expected to meet Myanmar Foreign Minister U Ohn Gyaw
            separately as well as General Secretary of the opposition
National
            League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi. 

            The visit came over a month after the NLD formed on
September 16 a
            10-member Committee Representing the Parliament Elected in
the
            1990 Multi-Party General Election and unilaterally set up a
People's
            Parliament. 

            The government ignored a deadline set by the NLD for the
convening
            of the parliament. 

            In August, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan proposed to
Myanmar
            leader Senior-General Than Shwe that a special emissary be
sent
            then to Yangon for the discussions, but was rejected by the
latter,
            according to an earlier official report. 

            In January, Alvaro visited Yangon and met with Than Shwe and
Khin
            Nyunt. 

            He then had discussions with Myanmar Foreign Minister U Ohn
Gyaw
            on matters of mutual interest and also met with Aung San Suu
Kyi. 

            Meanwhile, a latest government statement warned that no
pressure
            from foreign countries and organizations including the U.N.
will deter
            Myanmar from its chosen path.