Suu Kyi: 'I Stand Ready to Cooperate'

Aung San Suu Kyi is ready to cooperate with Burma's military rulers, UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari announced today, reading a statement from the long-imprisoned opposition leader. “I stand ready to cooperate with the government in order to make this process of dialogue a success,” she wrote after the government said it would allow her a rare meeting with her party.

It’s the first such statement from Suu Kyi since she was imprisoned in 2003; she hasn't met members of her pro-democracy party since 2004. Though Gambari said he’d laid groundwork for “substantive dialogue,” his six-day trip gave few hopeful signs, the New York Times reports—junta leaders refused to meet with him and rejected his proposals for three-way reconciliation talks. (More Ibrahim Gambari stories.)