NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is heading into talks with Myanmar's junta chief for what he calls "a very tough mission" to win freedom for the country's opposition leader.
Shortly after the U.N. chief arrived in Myanmar, the court presiding over Aung San Suu Kyi's widely
criticized trial announced an adjournment until July 10. The trial had been set to resume Friday after a monthlong delay with her final defense witness taking the stand.
If Ban is allowed to meet with the 64-year-old Nobel Peace Laureate, he will be the first U.N. secretary-general to do so since her first period of detention started in 1989.
Senior U.N. officials traveling with Ban called the trip a "highly risky" one for the secretary-general, whose image would suffer if the junta ignores his demands.
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