Myanmar's Suu Kyi meets U.N. envoy

By Aung Hla Tun

YANGON (Reuters) - Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met the visiting United Nations envoy on Saturday as the military junta signalled it was in no mood to be swayed on its drive for a new constitution.

A spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which won a 1990 election only to be denied power by the army, declined to elaborate on the content of Suu Kyi's talks in Yangon with Nigerian diplomat Ibrahim Gambari.

However, it looks highly unlikely there will be any breakthrough in the U.N.'s push since last September's brutally crushed democracy protests to get the generals to release Suu Kyi and include the NLD in their "roadmap to democracy".

In comments reported in Saturday's official newspapers in the former Burma, Information Minister Kyaw Hsan, a brigadier general, struck an uncompromising tone, telling Gambari there would be no changing the new constitution.

"The constitution has already been drafted and it should not be amended again," he was quoted as telling Gambari in a meeting the previous day.

He also told Gambari he should be advising the NLD to take part in May's referendum on the charter and elections slated for 2010.

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