Yingluck meets Burma's democracy leader Suu Kyi
Agencies, the Nation December 21, 2011
Rangoon - Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra on Tuesday in her first ever audience with a head of state from the region, a spokesman for her political party said Tuesday.
The meeting was also be Suu Kyi’s first with a prime minister since her release from house arrest more than a year ago, National League for Democracy spokesman Nyan Win said.
Both met at the Thai ambassador’s residence in Rangoon.
Suu Kyi met earlier this month with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She is scheduled to meet with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba later this month and Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague in January, Nyan Win said.
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