Suu Kyi predicts talks 'within weeks'

Aung San Suu Kyi and the junta are not talking yet

The Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has said she hopes talks with the country's military rulers will begin within weeks.

Speaking to the BBC, Aung San Suu Kyi said she was ready to discuss anything and would rule nothing out, including a temporary power-sharing agreement with the generals.

Mr Razali said differences had narrowed

"I keep my mind quite open. I don't have anything fixed in my own mind as to whether I would share or not share. We are not going to go into this dialogue with pre-conceived ideas."

Aung San Suu Kyi was released from 19 months of house arrest in May.

Her statement came after the UN envoy, Razali Ismail, said he was confident he had narrowed the differences between the military and opposition.

Aung San Suu Kyi's party won national elections in 1989, but she was never allowed to assume power after the junta brutally suppressed the pro-democracy protests.

Reconciliation talks

Aung San Suu Kyi now enjoys full political freedom, but there is yet to be substantial discussion between her opposition National League for Democracy party and the military.

Suu Kyi said she had no bitterness towards the military

Despite Mr Razali's efforts at pushing for a furthering of the reconciliation dialogue, Aung San Suu Kyi said the differences remained.

"Basically it's to do with the speed at which the democratic process is going.

"We have been very worried about the delays with regard to the release of political prisoners, and the delays with regard to the initiation of dialogue."

She also said any dialogue would eventually have to include representatives of Burma's minority tribes, some of whom have been waging an armed rebellion against the government.

'Not a visionary'

Aung San Suu Kyi said she had no ill feelings towards the military for her long imprisonment and the ban to see her family.

"I don't have any feelings of bitterness. I don't know what that means. I don't see why I should harbour feelings of bitterness."

She said she and her colleagues were not looking back, and that their belief kept them going.

But she said she wanted aggression and suffering in Burma to end.

"I am not a visionary, but what I would really like for the country is a little less aggro all around. I want my people to be able to progress in relative peace and security."