YANGON, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Newly-appointed Myanmar Liaison Minister U Aung Kyi met with Aung San Suu Kyi, detained leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), at the state guest house here Thursday afternoon, state-run TV Myanmar reported in an evening telecast.
It was the first meeting between U Aung Kyi and Aung San Suu Kyi since the prior, who is now Minister of Labor, was named concurrently liaison minister on Oct.8, responsible for getting link with the latter.
The appointment of U Aung Kyi as the liaison minister came after Special Envoy of United Nations Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari's urgent mission to Myanmar from Sept. 29 to Oct. 4, during which, Senior-General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), offered through Gambari to meet and talk personally and conditionally to Aung San Suu Kyi.
Gambari, Special Adviser of UN. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has been agreed by Myanmar to visit again the country in the first week of November to go on with UN's mediation efforts for the country's national reconciliation, according to UN sources.
Gambari has been touring six Asian nations since Oct. 15 to consult with regional partners of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, China and Japan about the situation in Myanmar.
The UN Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted on Oct. 11 a presidential statement on Myanmar calling for efforts to achieve an inclusive national reconciliation in the country.
Meanwhile, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro has also been agreed by the Myanmar government to visit again Myanmar by next month to look into the human rights situation in the country, UN sources added.
Aung San Suu Kyi at the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China (1995).
Myanmar opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi has left her house arrest to meet with government officials.

Witnesses have observed a caravan of vehicles leaving the home of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Reports say that she is meeting with a liaison minister, U Aung Kyi, who was recently appointed by Senior General Than Shwe, the leader of Myanmar's military junta.

The appointment of a liaison minister came after Special Envoy of the United Nations, Ibrahim Gambari, arrived in Myanmar on an urgent mission to press for mediation and reconciliation.

Yesterday, protests around the world yesterday marked the 12 years that Aung San Suu Kyi has spent in detention or house arrest. She was first arrested in 1989.