Kaladan News

Dated- July 29,2003, Tues

SUU KYI WILL NOT  REMAIN DETAINED FOR LONG TIME 

Chittagong, July 29: Aung San Suu Kyi will not remain in detention in Burma “ for a long period,” the Foreign Minister Win Aung said yesterday, according to AFP, Jakarta.

But the minister, facing international outrage over the arrest of the Nobel peace prize winner, refused during his visit to Indonesia to give any timeframe for her release.

Asked by reporters if Suu Kyi would be freed, Win Aung replied: “Yes of course. She will not remain there for along period.”

He was speaking after meeting Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda, who repeated calls for Suu Kyi’s immediate release.

Suu Kyi was detained after she and her supporters, who had been making a political tour, were ambushed on May 30 by a pro-government mob in an incident feared to have left dozens dead. ##