"The government has been meeting with the NLD since September, in an effort to work together toward national peace and stability," a statement from Myanmar Information Committee said.

NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi - the party vowed to call a "People's Parliament"

In recent weeks, the Burma authorities released another 20 NLD prisoners, but many more are said to remain in custody

The NLD, led by Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, says nearly 1,000 of its members, including 203 elected members of parliament, have been detained in recent months, in what was described as the worst crackdown since the junta seized power in 1988.

The government admits it is holding NLD members, but has given no figures.

The NLD won a landslide victory in elections in 1990, but Rangoon's military junta has since refused to allow the elected parliament to convene and has cracked down hard on the party.

Earlier this week the party accused the government of forcing its MPs to resign.

"Those under detention are being pressured by means of unlawful methods and being forced to resign from being representatives elect and from the NLD without their consent," the party said in a statement.

"The NLD will not accept their resignations at all as they are not in accord with the law," it said.

Earlier this year the party leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, set an August deadline for the military authorities to relinquish power, but the deadline passed with no changes, and NLD protests followed.

The party vowed that it would call a "People's Parliament", which apparently triggered the wave of detentions.