UN chief calls for Burma releases
3 Jul 2009 15:42 BST

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on Burma's military junta to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners.

Mr Ban made the request during talks with Gen Than Shwe in the remote administrative capital Nay Pyi Taw.

He also asked to be able to visit Ms Suu Kyi in jail in person, but said he had not yet been given permission.

Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate, has spent much of the past two decades in prison or under house arrest.

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