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Burma's pro democracy leader says dialogue with Junta "yet to start in

Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told a Japanese politician that her dialogue with the ruling junta on national recouncilation has yet to start in full.

The 1991 Nobel Peace laureate was quoted by former Japanese foreign minister Kabun Muto as saying both sides are still trying to erase "mutual mistrust".

Aung San Suu Kyi has lived under house arrest since September 2000, and began preliminary talks aimed at "national reconciliation" with the junta a month later.

But the dialogue is widely seen to have reached a virtual standstill.

Ms Suu Kyi also asked the Japanese politician to tell the Burmese junta to release political prisoners at faster pace.

12/12/01 4:49:32 | ABC Radio Australia News

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