Washington, May 10: A senior US official has met Myanmar’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a visit to the country to talk to military junta chiefs.
Kurt Campbell, assistant US secretary of state for East Asia, met the Nobel Laureate on Monday at a government guest house.
The trip by the US diplomat comes days after the formal disbanding of the National League for Democracy (NLD), which is the main opposition party led by Suu Kyi.
It is the second time the US top official has visited Myanmar ahead of controversial elections being prepared by the country’s military regime.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s party was dissolved after it boycotted the elections scheduled for this year.
Myanmar’s ruling junta leaders had announced that any existing party, which failed to re-register must be disbanded.
The forthcoming election, for which no date has yet been set, will be the first such election in two decades.
NLD says the laws under which the polls will be held are unfair. The new election laws require the party to expel its detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 64, is known as a symbol of democracy in Myanmar. She has spent nearly 14 of the past 20 years in detention and under house arrest.
—Agencies