Foreign ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Sunday called on Myanmar's ruling junta to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other political detainees, according to DPA. On the eve of the formal start of the 41st ASEAN Ministerial Meetings in Singapore, the ministers of the 10-member regional bloc expressed disappointment over Suu Kyi's continued detention. "The foreign ministers expressed their deep disappointment that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's detention under house arrest had been extended by the Myanmar government," Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo told reporters after the officials met over dinner. "They repeated the call by ASEAN leaders for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other political detainees as part of Myanmar's national reconciliation process," he added. Suu Kyi has spent most of the last 18 years under house arrest and has currently been detained since 2003. In May, the military junta extended her house arrest indefinitely.
