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Myanmar must guarantee democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s<\/strong> safety when she travels around the country for the first time since her release last year, Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd.<\/p>\n

Rudd said he had met with the country’s new president, Thein Sein, and made a personal appeal for the release of 2,000 other political prisoners<\/strong>, telling him that doing so would transform international views of the new government.<\/p>\n

He spoke to reporters during a stop-over in Singapore on his way home from a visit to Myanmar.<\/p>\n

A source from Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party has said she plans to travel outside the main city Yangon for the first time<\/strong> since being freed from seven years of house arrest last year, but politics was not on the agenda.<\/p>\n

Rudd said the global community would be watching closely how the government would ensure the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s security.
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\nThe issue is a major concern because during a previous political trip in 2003, her convoy was attacked in an ambush apparently organised by the military regime at that time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Myanmar’s official media last Wednesday said the home affairs ministry had written to Suu Kyi to state that her party’s activities had broken the law.<\/p>\n

It was the first time since her release that the authorities have explicitly warned her to stay out of politics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Australia’s top diplomat said he spent “several hours” with Suu Kyi earlier on Saturday, and she told him she responded to the ministry’s letter by suggesting a dialogue and was awaiting a response.<\/p>\n

“Aung San Suu Kyi is in very good spirits,” Rudd said. “She is a very determined person. She is a person of enormous will, determination, and I would say, just plain political guts.”<\/p>\n

Suu Kyi was freed in November, days after the country held an election that critics said was a charade aimed at hiding military rule behind a civilian facade.<\/p>\n

Despite releasing Suu Kyi, Myanmar has been under pressure to free other political prisoners as one demonstration that it was serious about undertaking democratic reforms<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Rudd said he told the Myanmar leader that the “single action” of releasing the detainees “will have a significant, transformative effect on the international community’s attitude to the newly established government.”<\/p>\n

“These prisoners remain as prisoners of conscience within Burma, and the international community awaits action… in ensuring that these people obtain freedom,” Rudd said.<\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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