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UN chief Ban meets Suu Kyi in Myanmar
Updated On: 01 May, 2012 03:39 PM IST | | Agencies
UN chief Ban Ki-moon met Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi today for talks about the country's political future after a surprise climbdown by the Nobel laureate in her boycott of parliament.
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u00a0The talks at the opposition leader's lakeside mansion in Yangon, where she was locked up by the former junta for much of the past two decades, come a day after Ban became the first visiting foreigner to address Myanmar's legislature.u00a0
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It is the first meeting between Suu Kyi and Ban, who left frustrated after a previous visit in 2009 when the generals who ruled the nation for decades refused to allow him to see the veteran activist while in detention.u00a0
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon (File photo)
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