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Although they acknowledged...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eEnglish/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eEuropean ministers on Tuesday praised Myanmar's military junta for agreeing to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest and to allow an E-U delegation to meet with her next month. \u003cbr/\u003eAlthough they acknowledged that much still needed to be done, the ministers called the agreement a major breakthrough in the political standoff in Myanmar, also known as Burma.\u003cbr/\u003eThe developments came as European and Southeast Asian countries ended landmark talks in Laos, meeting each other halfway on the contentious issue of human rights in Myanmar and agreeing to strengthen trade ties.\u003cbr/\u003eThe two-day talks had been dominated by Myanmar, which faces widespread criticism for imposing severe restrictions on political activity.\u003cbr/\u003eMyanmar's junta faced renewed international pressure these past few weeks for putting Aung San Suu Kyi and other leaders of her National League for Democracy under house arrest for trying to travel outside Yangon.\u003cbr/\u003eBut on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Win Aung confirmed that a European Union team would be allowed to visit Myanmar in January and meet Suu Kyi.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said the 1990 Nobel peace laureate she would be released from her virtual house arrest at \"an appropriate time\" but refused to elaborate on whether she would be freed before the European visit.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"At an appropriate time, the restrictions, the temporary restrictions placed on her will be lifted. At an appropriate time.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Q: What is the appropriate time?)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Let us not go into detail. An appropriate time is an appropriate time, which we deem fit and it could be some time.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Win Aung, Myanmar Foreign Minister \u003cbr/\u003eWin Aung's words indicated that Myanmar was not willing to make great concessions despite the two-day meeting between the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations that ended in Laos on Tuesday.\u003cbr/\u003eThe final communique released by the summit delegates called for an early start to dialogue between the Myanmar government and opposition groups.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Win Aung ruled out reconciliation talks with Aung San Suu Kyi's party unless it stopped behaving like the opposition and started supporting the country's military junta.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that maybe in the future, if the NLD changes their tactics from confrontation to cooperation approach, I think there could be a dialogue.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION:  Win Aung, Myanmar Foreign Minister\u003cbr/\u003eAt the Laos meeting, it was agreed the E-U would send a troika - a high level delegation - to Myanmar in January.\u003cbr/\u003eIt will the second time the E-U has sent such a delegation to the country.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"We will give them the same opportunity as the first troika visit. So when they came the first time they had access to the people they had requested and it will be like the first one.\"\u003cbr/\u003e(Q: Which means they would then be allowed to meet  Aung San Suu Kyi, so I suppose the same conditions will apply this time also?)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION:  Win Aung, Myanmar Foreign Minister\u003cbr/\u003eThe Laos meeting had been held up for the last three years because of differences over Myanmar. \u003cbr/\u003eAlthough European countries got their way by forcing a discussion on Myanmar, ASEAN members - who believe human rights in Myanmar are an internal issue - ensured that the joint statement issued at the end of the meeting carried a weaker reference to the situation in Myanmar than envisaged by Europe.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"In fact someone joked that it's amazing that the E-U troika can go, but the ASEAN troika won't get there yet. So there's an irony there. We simply say we also welcome the fact when pressed the Burmese foreign minister also said there would be access.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: John Battle, British minister of state for Commonwealth\u003cbr/\u003eThe statement noted the efforts by Razali Ismail, the U-N Secretary-General's special envoy to Myanmar, to forge a reconciliation between Myanmar's junta and Suu Kyi. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Yes, her name did come up. And I also would say that that's the assumption. That Aung San Suu Kyi would be counted in, but there are others as well. What we want is more open access, certainly not less than on the last troika visit.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: John Battle, British minister of state for Commonwealth\u003cbr/\u003eMyanmar's image as a pariah state was reinforced by a report issued on Tuesday by Amnesty International which charged that torture and ill-treatment have become institutionalised in Myanmar.\u003cbr/\u003eThe foreign minister reacted to this by saying that such allegations were based on false information propagated by the opposition.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"If there's is widespread torture or like that, the country would not be the same. The people will not tolerate this kind of torture or treatment to their people. And the police officers are also civilian officers there. I think that these allegations mostly come from the kind of people who oppose us in the jungle, from the insurgency group in Thailand at the Thai border. You can see that this information has no credibility.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Win Aung, Myanmar Foreign Minister\u003cbr/\u003eMyanmar's military rulers face widespread criticism from the West for refusing to hand over power to the N-L-D, which won the elections in 1990.\u003cbr/\u003eThey have also been criticised for harassing N-L-D leaders and for alleged human rights violations and using forced labour.\u003cbr/\u003eASEAN, of which Myanmar is a member, refuses to criticise the junta, saying human rights is an internal matter.\u003cbr/\u003eThe European concerns are likely to carry forward to the next ASEAN-EU meeting, which must be held in Europe. \u003cbr/\u003eNo time frame or location has yet  been decided.\u003cbr/\u003e Vientiane, Laos - 11/12 December 2000/Yangon, File\u003cbr/\u003e11 December \u003cbr/\u003e1. Myanmar Foreign Minister enters conference\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide shot conference\u003cbr/\u003e3. Myanmar  FM sits down\u003cbr/\u003e4. Conference\u003cbr/\u003e12 December\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Win Aung, Myanmar Foreign Minister \u003cbr/\u003eFILE - Yangon, Myanmar - 1999\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of Aung San Suu Kyi at the headquarters of her National League for Democracy\u003cbr/\u003e12 December \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Win Aung, Myanmar Foreign Minister\u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of delegates\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Win Aung, Myanmar Foreign Minister\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various EU/ASEAN meeting\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) John Battle, British minister of state for Commonwealth\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide shot of meeting\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) John Battle, British minister of state for Commonwealth, \u003cbr/\u003eFILE - Yangon, Myanmar - September 1996\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of Aung San Suu Kyi outside her home\u003cbr/\u003e12 December \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English)  Win Aung, Myanmar Foreign Minister\u003cbr/\u003e16. 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