RANGOON, Burma — Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she is willing to work with Burma's military government on getting Western sanctions against the country lifted but needs to be allowed to gather more information about the matter first, her lawyer said Friday.
Nyan Win, who is also a spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, said after meeting the detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate Friday that she willsend a letter to junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe with her views on the sanctions issue.
Her position appeared to signal a change in her attitude toward sanctions, which she had previously welcomed as a way to pressure the junta to come to an accommodation with the pro-democracy movement.
The U.S. and other Western nations apply political and economic sanctions against the military regime because of its poor human-rights record and failure to turn over power to Suu Kyi's party, which won general elections in 1990.
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