At the risk of repeating ourselves...
A UN rights envoy met Burma government officials yesterday at the start of a week-long visit aimed at persuading the military junta to free democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and address its much-criticised rights record. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro is the second high-level UN official to visit Burma since Suu Kyi was confined to her Rangooon home in September after major surgery and nearly three months in detention at a secret location. There were no immediate details of his talks, but he has asked to meet Suu Kyi, a UN official said. The regime may allow that meeting, but is unlikely to yield much ground on other issues, diplomats said. The Brazilian academic cut short his last trip to Burma in March after discovering a bugging device taped to the underside of a table while interviewing a political prisoner in a Rangoon jail.
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