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Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Putting to rest speculations, the United Nations special envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, currently in Burma on a four-day trip, is meeting detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday, an AP report, quoting an unnamed government official said.

Aung San Suu Kyi meets UN special envoy Gambari in March 2008

The meeting is taking place at a government guest house in Burma's former capital Rangoon, the report said. Aung San Suu Kyi was transported to the meeting venue from her lakeside villa on University Avenue in Rangoon, where she is under house arrest.

Gambari, whose mission is to persuade the Burmese military junta to release political prisoners, discuss Burma's economic reforms and to revive the dialogue between Suu Kyi and the junta, faces criticism for so far failing to come up with any tangible result.

The UN chief Ban Ki-moon's special adviser to Burma, Mr. Gambari is on his seventh trip to the country to urge the junta to initiate the process of national reconciliation.