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Burmese junta says it's still talking to opposition

Burma's Foreign Minister has defended a secret dialogue with the country's democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

From the capital, Rangoon, south-east Asia correspondent Geoff Thompson reports.

After months of cautious optimism, most major western missions in Rangoon have started to question the progress of an historic dialogue between Burma's military government and democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. But Burma's Foreign Minister, Wing Ong, has strongly rejected suggestions that the process has stalled. "WE ARE NOT PLAYING GAMES for the sake of the media and the public RELATIONS STAND." The key concerns of diplomats are the inability of the Malaysian U.N. envoy, Risali Ismael, to return to Burma, and the continuing imprisonment of more than 15-hundred members of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy.

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