SUMMARY: "During a visit to Bangkok, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma, expressed frustration with Burma?s ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and called upon the Burmese junta to clarify what steps they plan to take in the democratic reform process. The Special Rapporteur met separately with the Thai Foreign Minister (FM) Kantathi Supamongkhon and the Bangkok diplomatic community. The Thai FM expressed his hope to Pinheiro that National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) be freed next year when elections might be held following the ratification of a new Burmese constitution. Pinheiro said that he hoped neither the US or the EU would agree to a possible ASEAN compromise with the SPDC which would allow Burma to assume the ASEAN chairmanship in 2006, but only if the meetings take place in another country." END SUMMARY.