From Telegraph.co.uk :

UN envoy meets Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma

By Katie Franklin and David Eimer

Last Updated: 12:09pm BST 30/09/2007

UN envoy Ibrahim Gambar has met Burma's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the country's military leaders, diplomatic sources say.

Mr Gambar is attempting to bring about an end to a bloody crackdown on mass pro-democracy protests. Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Ibrahim Gambar The talks came as thousands of soldiers and police locked down Burma's largest cities, keeping protesters off the streets. Mr Gambari is said to have met with the junta in the capital Naypyitaw and Ms Suu Kyi in Ragoon. Mr Gambari's meeting with Ms Suu Kyi lasted about 90 minutes, diplomats said. However, the details of the meeting were not immediately known. "We want Mr Gambari to stay here long enough to get underway a genuine process of national reconciliation," Britain's ambassador Mark Canning said. "He should be given as much time as that takes. That will require access to senior levels of government as well as a range of political actors." The demonstrations began last month after the government of Burma, also known as Myanmar, increased the price of fuel. [...]

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