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Subject: Paris urges Myanmar to let Suu Kyi's husband visit 

Paris urges Myanmar to let Suu Kyi's husband visit
07:07 p.m Mar 24, 1999 Eastern
PARIS, March 24 (Reuters) - France on Wednesday urged Myanmar to let the
dying husband of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi visit her in Yangon
before he dies.

Suu Kyi's British husband Michael Aris, 52, has been denied a Myanmar visit
for the past three years. Family sources say the Oxford academic is now
dying of cancer.

Yangon has said Myanmar lacks proper medical facilities to treat him and Suu
Kyi, who is in good health, should visit her husband instead. She has vowed
to stay in Yangon, fearing that if she left she might not be allowed back.

``France strongly urges the Myanmar authorities to make a humanitarian
gesture for Mr Aris by granting him a visa enabling him to go to his wife
Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi,'' the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy and winner of the 1991
Nobel peace prize, has not left Myanmar for 11 years.

07:07 p.m Mar 24, 1999 Eastern
PARIS, March 24 (Reuters) - France on Wednesday urged Myanmar to let the
dying husband of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi visit her in Yangon
before he dies.

Suu Kyi's British husband Michael Aris, 52, has been denied a Myanmar visit
for the past three years. Family sources say the Oxford academic is now
dying of cancer.

Yangon has said Myanmar lacks proper medical facilities to treat him and Suu
Kyi, who is in good health, should visit her husband instead. She has vowed
to stay in Yangon, fearing that if she left she might not be allowed back.

``France strongly urges the Myanmar authorities to make a humanitarian
gesture for Mr Aris by granting him a visa enabling him to go to his wife
Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi,'' the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy and winner of the 1991
Nobel peace prize, has not left Myanmar for 11 years.