Thai PM meets Myanmar opposition leader in Yangon

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra met with Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), at the Thai Embassy here Tuesday evening, the Thai embassy sources confirmed. The state-run Myanmar Radio and Television also reported the pair's meeting in a night broadcast. Coming over from Nay Pyi Taw as part of her official trip to Myanmar following the end of the 4th Summit of the six-country Greater Mekong Subregion-Economic Cooperation (GMS), Yingluck is the first prime minister of Thailand meeting with Suu Kyi. The sources did not disclose the details about their meeting. During her brief visit in Yangon, she paid homage to Myanmar's sacred Shwedagon Pagoda before departure for home. Yingluck arrived Nay Pyi Taw Monday on an official visit to Myanmar and attended the six-country 4th GMS summit held in the capital earlier on Tuesday, during the sideline of which Myanmar President U Thein Sein had a bilateral meeting with Yingluck and matters relating to energy cooperation, construction of Myawaddy- Kawkareik motor road and Dawei deep-sea port were discussed according to the radio report. She was accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na- Ranong, five ministers , six deputy ministers and 37 delegates. Yingluck once paid a short visit to Myanmar on Oct. 5. Thailand represented the second in Myanmar's foreign investment line-up with 9.568 billion dollars in 61 projects.