OPPOSITION SEEKS TO MEET SUU KYI

September 1, 2004 - (AFP) Myanmar's opposition has asked the country's military regime to allow a meeting with their detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi amid calls for a party overhaul, officials said Wednesday.

Members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) want to boost the leadership, whose numbers have dwindled because of detentions, resignations and deaths, and to rejuvenate an ageing party.

"We haven't get their (the government's) reply yet and we are expecting to meet her. We have many things to discuss," NLD spokesman U Lwin told AFP.

Any meeting would be the first since May when NLD leaders, including Aung San Suu Kyi, held a series of discussions before boycotting a national convention held by the junta.

The regime, which has ruled the country since a 1962 coup, said the convention was the first step in its programme of democratic development but the international community has dismissed it as a sham.

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