A U.N. envoy met pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, hours after an audience with Myanmar's military leader. Ibrahim Gambari, the U.N.'s special envoy to Myanmar, met with Senior Gen. Than Shwe in the junta's remote new capital, Naypyitaw, The Associated Press quoted two foreign diplomats as saying. Other diplomats said he then flew to Yangon to see Suu Kyi, the Nobel peace laureate who has come to symbolize the yearning for democracy in Myanmar and has been under house arrest for years.
