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BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military government allowed Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the country’s beleaguered democracy movement, to hold a rare meeting with foreign diplomats Friday as part of what appears to be early but tentative signs of a detente between the junta and Western governments.
The meeting focused almost exclusively on Western sanctions against the country, diplomats said. Suu Kyi has angered the junta with her support for sanctions, but in recent weeks she has suggested that she is open to changing her mind on the issue.
“She was at great pains to say that this was fact-finding and that she had reached no policy view yet,” said Andrew Heyn, the British ambassador to Myanmar, who represented the European Union at the meeting.
