Release of Aung San Suu Kyi not on four-nation leadership meeting agenda: Thai F

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Release of Aung San Suu Kyi not on four-nation leadership meeting agenda: Thai F

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Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai noted that the release of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi would not be on the agenda of the upcoming four-nation leadership meeting in the former Myanmar capital of Pagan, the Thai News Agency reported Wednesday.

The meeting, scheduled to be held on Nov. 12, will be attended by leaders of four countries: Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.

A meeting between foreign ministers of all four nations in the Myanmar capital of Rangoon will be held on Nov. 10 first.

The leadership meeting, an initiative of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, would focus on broad economic issues, and the generation of additional incomes for the sub-regional population, and not much would be talked about the Aung San Suu Kyi issue, Surakiart said.

However, he also said as far as the issue of Aung San Suu Kyi is concerned, Thailand's stance was clear that the Kingdom wanted to see the release of Aung San Suu Kyi as soon as possible.

"If Myanmar has procedures that it must follow, the country should start the ball rolling itself," he said.

"As Rangoon has told the prime minister, it has already allowedAung San Suu Kyi to return home. She is no longer in confinement. The Myanmar government has given us our word that it will follow the country's national reconciliation plan, or 'road map'," he stated.

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