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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Myanmar slams foreign interference over Suu Kyi AFP - Friday, May 29 YANGON (AFP) - - Myanmar's ruling junta Thursday lashed out at foreign "pressure and interference" over the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, denying that the case is a political ploy to keep her jailed for elections in 2010. ADVERTISEMENT The military regime fired off a stinging rebuttal to Southeast Asian and European ministers at a meeting in Cambodia, in its strongest reaction yet to the international outrage over its treatment of the pro-democracy icon. The comments came as the sole defence witness took the stand at the closed court in Yangon's notorious Insein prison after judges disqualified the only other three people called to testify for the Nobel laureate. "It is not political, it is not a human rights issue. So we don't accept pressure and interference from abroad," Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister Maung Myint told counterparts in Phnom Penh, adding that it was an "internal issue." But the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and EU ministers later issued a statement calling on Myanmar to free all political prisoners, echoing a similar call made at a meeting in Vietnam earlier this week. "She should be released immediately," Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout, whose country currently holds the rotating European Union (EU) presidency, said in the Cambodian capital. Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, faces up to five years in jail on charges of violating her house arrest, stemming from a bizarre incident in which an American swam to her home to warn her of a divine vision that her life was at risk. Myanmar's state media separately carried a foreign ministry statement saying that her trial would "not have any political impact" and that it would continue to hold elections next year under its "roadmap" to democracy. Critics say the polls are a sham designed to entrench the regime's hold on power. Both sides are set to give their closing statements to the trial on Monday, said Nyan Win, who is on Aung San Suu Kyi's legal team and is also the spokesman for her National League for Democracy (NLD) party. Judges on Thursday finished questioning legal expert Kyi Win, the only witness for the defence, Nyan Win added. It was not yet clear when a verdict would be reached. The court had barred three out of four defence witnesses, including the detained deputy chairman of the NLD, Tin Oo, and Myanmar's former longest serving prisoner, Win Tin, who was freed in September, he added. Outside the court security officials arrested a lone protester, a man in his 50s who held a banner that said in Burmese and English "Saving Suu is saving Burma," referring to the country by its former name. Foreign reaction to the trial has been harsh. US President Barack Obama on Tuesday described the Myanmar proceedings as a "show trial" while European nations have warned they may boost sanctions against the ruling generals. ASEAN last week issued a rare condemnation of Myanmar, warning that the regime's "honour and credibility" were at stake, in response to western pressure to take action against its most troublesome member. Singapore's government said, however, that expelling Myanmar from the 10-member bloc was not the way to bring about reform. Aung San Suu Kyi, who turns 64 next month, has spent 13 of the last 19 years in detention. The junta lifted the latest six-year period of her house arrest on Wednesday but she is in jail pending the verdict. Yettaw, 53, a devout Mormon and US military veteran, took the stand on Wednesday for the first time and said that he was ordered by God to swim to Aung San Suu Kyi's house after having a dream that she would be assassinated. He was in court again Thursday and faces jail on charges of breaching security and immigration laws and of illegal swimming. Myanmar's military regime annulled elections in 1990 that the NLD won by a landslide. It has ruled the country with an iron fist since 1962. 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