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                          MYANMAR NEWS RELEASE
               VOL.10                            JULY 29,
                 1998                              NO.17
                     EMBASSY OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR
                                 OTTAWA
STOP PRESS
(4:00 PM  Eastern Time)

Political demonstration Resolved Peacefully

 The following is a summary of how the political demonstration by MRS.
SUU KYI ARIS ended peacefully on July 29, 1998 and safely returned home
in Yangon at 10:20 pm local time.

1. The Chairman of National League For Democracy U Aung Shwe and Central
Executive Committee (CEC) members met at their Yangon Division Party
office in the early afternoon to discuss whether they should go and
advise  MRS. ARIS and the group to come back to Yangon.

2. After a decision to do so was reached the Chairman, two CEC members
and a physician requested the authorities concerned to allow them in two
automobiles to visit Mrs. Aris at the site where she has been staging
the demonstration.

3. Between 5:50 and 7:45 pm on the same day a meeting took place between
the Chairman's party and Mrs. Aris during which officials supplied them
with drinks as requested.

4. After the meeting, responsible security officials made a final
request to Mrs. Aris to consider her own well-being and to return to
Yangon which she apparently declined.

5. By 9:35 pm U Hla Pe (her companion and fellow party official) and the
two chauffeurs were asked to board another car while Mrs. Aris' car,
driven by a security driver, an officer and with two women red-cross
personnel caring for her, began their journey home.
After arriving home at 10:20 pm two medical doctors who attended on her
earlier and some CEC members also arrived at her residence.

6. The officials apparently took this decision to return Mrs. Aris to
her home in Yangon in the interest of her own health and well-being
since she, in spite of her intransigence, still happens to be the
daughter of the late national leader General Aung San.
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