Burma reconciliation hopes
An EU delegation to Burma has been given positive indications over reconciliation between the country's pro-democracy leader and its military regime.
Aung San Suu Kyi and the military regime have given positive indications to the delegation that they want reconciliation talks to move forward.
The EU team, which today ended a four-day mission to the military state to gauge an apparent thaw in relations, said Suu Kyi looked relaxed.
The French ambassador to Burma briefed south-east Asian ambassadors including the Thai envoy after the EU delegation had held more than two hours of meetings with Suu Kyi at her house in the capital Rangoon, where she has been under house arrest since September.
"They (EU) said both sides gave positive indications that they wanted their talks to move forward," the press statement said.
The EU mission, the first to Burma since July 1999, was trying to foster an end to the decade-long political impasse between Suu Kyi's National League for the Democracy party and the military, which has controlled Burma since 1962.
