Suu Kyi ''not getting adequate medical care'': UN envoy

Bangkok, Nov 12 (UNI) Myanmar's detained Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi ''is not getting adequate medical care'', UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambaria said today.

Mr Gambari, who ended his four-day visit to the military-ruled Myanmar today, is the only foreigner to have been allowed to see the pro-democracy leader in over two years.

''While Suu Kyi's health is good considering her over decade-long house arrest, she needs to see a doctor more often,'' the UN official said on his arrival today from Yangon where he met the Nobel Peace Laureate for the second time this year.

The 61-year-old Myanmarese leader has spent most of the past 17 years under detention after the country's military rulers overturned the 1990 popular mandate in her party's favour.

She met the UN envoy earlier in May this year. Earlier, Mr Gambari travelled to Myanmar's new capital to meet the country's military rulers with whom he discussed political and humanitarian issues.

The UN envoy also held meetings with delegates to Myanmar's National Convention and representatives of armed ethnic groups. Mr Gambari briefly attended the Convention that had been called to discuss a roadmap to democracy, but boycotted by pro-democracy activists, including Suu Kyi's party.

In his talks with various groups, Mr Gambari ''stressed the need for an all-inclusive and transparent political process in which all the people of Myanmar can find their voice, including those groups not represented at the Convention,'' said a UN statement from Myanmar.

He also referred to the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's report which highlighted that ''there can be no development without peace, no durable peace without sustainable development and neither peace nor development without democratisation and respect for human rights.'' In response to appeals made by a number of representatives of ethnic groups, Mr Gambari assured his interlocutors that ''the UN stands ready to provide humanitarian assistance to all regions of the country, the statement said.

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