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Subject: Kyodo News-Albright, Downer place hope on U.N. mission to Myanmar

SINGAPORE, July 25 
Albright, Downer place hope on U.N. mission to Myanmar

     U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Australian
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer exchanged views Sunday on U.N.
Secretary General Kofi Annan's proposal to dispatch a U.N. official
to Myanmar for talks on conditions for resuming World Bank assistance
to the Southeast Asian country.
     Downer told reporters he and Albright discussed Annan's
initiative to send Alvaro de Soto to Yangon along with a World Bank
official to meet with officials of Myanmar's ruling State Peace and
Development Council (SPDC).