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YANGON (Reuters) - Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari on Monday during his mission to try to coax her and the military junta toward talks on political reform.
    
Crushing any hopes of a breakthrough or compromise, a spokesman for her National League for Democracy (NLD) said the party was sticking to a list of preconditions it wants met before it sits down with the former Burma's ruling generals.
    
The terms include the release of all political prisoners, including Suu Kyi, a review of the new constitution and honoring of the results of the 1990 election that the NLD won by a landslide but which the army ignored, spokesman Nyan Win said.
    
Suu Kyi dictated similar conditions for a rumored visit by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to Myanmar to inject some life into the non-existent political reform process, he added.
    
"The minimum requirement is the release of all political prisoners," Nyan Win quoted her as telling Gambari at the meeting, which included five senior NLD members and lasted more than an hour.
    
According to the Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), 2,162 people are currently behind bars on account of their political or religious beliefs.
    
Gambari can at least take heart that Suu Kyi agreed to see him. On his last visit, in August, she refused to meet him despite being held under house arrest since May 2003.
    
Analysts believe her snub was to show displeasure at the U.N.'s tacit acceptance of planned 2010 elections as the basis for future political reform, rather than the 1990 vote.
    
Gambari is due to head to the junta's remote new capital, Naypyidaw, on Tuesday.
    
There was no word on whether he will meet aging junta supremo Than Shwe, who is known to loathe Suu Kyi so much he once stormed out of a meeting with a foreign diplomat when the envoy mentioned her name.
    
Suu Kyi's NLD won a landslide election victory in 1990 only to be denied power by the military, which has run the country since a 1962 coup. The NLD believes the 1990 results must be the basis for any future political settlement.
    
New elections are scheduled for 2010 under the final stages of a seven-step "roadmap to democracy" drawn up by the generals. A new constitution guaranteeing the army control of the country was passed in a heavily criticized referendum last year.
    
(Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by Alex Richardson)
    
    
    
      
      
 
      
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