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YANGON - Detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been allowed a rare meeting with her lawyer, as a UN envoy headed to Myanmar on a mission to press the government to reform, a spokesman for her party said Monday.
The Nobel peace prize winner's meeting with her lawyer Kyi Win lasted more than four hours Sunday, in their second encounter this month, said Nyan Win, spokesman for her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.
Their last meeting on August 8 was their first since 2004.
Aung San Suu Kyi was also granted a visit by her doctor Tin Myo Win on Sunday, who gave her a medical checkup -- her first since February.
The doctor had visited her in May, but only to supervise repairs to her house, which suffered light damage during the devastating Cyclone Nargis, Nyan Win said.
"I do not know the details" of her meetings, Nyan Win said, but added: "It is significant that her personal doctor was also allowed to see her."
Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of the last 19 years confined to her home.
Her latest detention began more than five years ago, and she has been allowed little contact with the outside world.
The meetings came as UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari headed to Yangon on Monday on a five-day mission to push the regime to make political reforms ahead of elections that the government says will be held in 2010.
It is Gambari's fourth visit in his role as mediator between the regime and the opposition NLD led by Aung San Suu Kyi.
His last visit in March was described as "disappointing" by UN officials after the government publicly rebuffed his calls for political reform.While Gambari held two meetings with Aung San Suu Kyi, he was unable to see junta leader General Than Shwe.Myanmar has been ruled by the military since 1962. The NLD won a landslide victory in 1990 elections but the government never allowed them to take office. - AFP/vm
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