By VOA News 09 October 2009
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is meeting with Western diplomats in the main city of Rangoon.
Burma's military-ruled government gave permission for the Nobel Peace laureate to meet with diplomats from the United States, Britain and Australia.
Aung San Suu Kyi sent a letter last month to Senior General Than Shwe, the leader of the military junta, offering to cooperate in order to have Western sanctions against Burma lifted. She and Labor Minister Aung Kyi held a 45-minute meeting last Saturday at a government guest house.
Aung San Suu Kyi has been under some form of detention for 14 of the last 20 years. She was sentenced in August to an extra 18 months of house arrest for allowing an uninvited American man to stay at her home without official permission.
A district court in Rangoon recently rejected her appeal to overturn the conviction. The international community has denounced Aung San Suu Kyi's conviction, accusing the regime of using it as an excuse to prevent her from participating in next year's elections.
Her National League for Democracy party won Burma's last elections in 1990 but the military ignored the results.
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