(Reuters) - Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi held talks with a representative of the ruling junta for more than an hour on Thursday, state television said.
It said nothing about what she discussed with Aung Kyi, a senior member of the junta appointed go-between after the United Nations sent a special envoy to Myanmar, also known as Burma, to promote reconciliation and reform in the wake of the army's crackdown on pro-democracy protests in September.
Suu Kyi was taken from her villa and de facto prison of the last four years to a state guesthouse to meet Aung Kyi, and state television said the talks had lasted 75 minutes.
It gave no further details, but a security source said the 62-year-old Nobel laureate had been returned to her lakeside villa, where she has spent more than 11 of the past 18 years under house arrest.
Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), which won a 1990 election by a landslide only to be denied power by the military, said it did not know what had happened at the guesthouse, where she had earlier met U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari on October 2.
The barbed wire barricades that have sealed off the road outside her home since protests started in August against fuel price rises and 45 years of military rule remained in place, scuppering hopes Suu Kyi might be about to be released.
Aung Kyi, a trusted regime fixer, was appointed two weeks ago after Gambari flew in at the height of a crackdown on the biggest protests in two decades with a message from the U.N. Security Council telling the generals to talk to Suu Kyi about reform.
After his departure, junta leader Senior General Than Shwe made a highly conditional offer of talks with Suu Kyi, although given his widely known loathing for "The Lady", as her supporters call her, many doubt his sincerity.