U.N. envoy discuss UN Chief visit

Myanmar FM, U.N. envoy discuss UN Chief visit
YANGON, June 28 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's proposed visit to Myanmar has topped the discussions between his special envoy Ibrahim Gambari and Myanmar Foreign Minister U Nyan Win during Gambari's just-ended two-day visit to the country's new capital Nay Pyi Taw, local media reported Sunday.
However, neither of the two sides disclosed the specific date of Ban's visit, according to a report of the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar.
Gambari arrived on Friday and ended his visit on Saturday. No reports are available about the details of his meetings with high-ranking officials and political leaders in Myanmar.
Gambari's trip came amid the trial against Aung San Suu Kyi, her two maids -- Khin Khin Win and Win Ma Ma, and U.S. citizen John William Yettaw.
The trial was in connection with Yettaw's secret intrusion into Aung San Suu Kyi's then restricted lakeside residence on the night of May 3 by swimming through the Inya Lake. He was arrested at the dawn of May 6 when he was swimming back after having stayed there for two days.
Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), is charged with violating her terms of house arrest by accommodating Yettaw.
Despite lifting of the political leader's five and a half years' house arrest on May 26 for the third time, Aung San Suu Kyi continued to be detained to face the legal trial in this connection.
Along with Aung San Suu Kyi, the other three people are also being detained in the compound of Insein Prison, in Yangon, where the trial against them has been underway since May 18.
During his last four-day Myanmar mission from Jan. 30 to Feb. 3this year, Gambari met with Myanmar Prime Minister General Thein Sein and the government's authoritative team, led by Information Minister Brigadier-General Kyaw Hsan, in Nay Pyi Taw.
Arranged by the government, Gambari also met with Aung San Suu Kyi, 64, who was then under house arrest at her lakeside residence before the incident.
Gambari's just-ended mission was the eighth since he was appointed to the post in early 2006.
Meanwhile, Ban Ki-moon last visited the country in late May 2008 after it was struck by Cyclone Nargis early in the month which inflicted the heaviest casualties and massive infrastructure damage in a century mainly to Ayeyawaddy and Yangon divisions, claiming lives of 84,537 people and leaving 53,836 others missing and 19,359 others injured, according to official tally.