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YANGON (AFP) - - Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyer said Thursday that he had held "positive" talks with the detained democracy leader and that she appeared in good health, after reports she was not accepting food.
Kyi Win said he had informed the Nobel Peace Prize winner of concerns about her health, after her National League for Democracy (NLD) party said last week that she had not accepted most of her food rations for three weeks.
Concerns that Aung San Suu Kyi was staging a hunger strike were heightened after she refused last week to meet the junta liaison officer Aung Kyi.
Her lawyer said she appeared well during their two-hour discussion at the lakeside Yangon home where she has been confined for most of the last 19 years, but that she would only explain her actions on Sunday, when she will see her personal physician.
"She recognised our reasons for worrying," he told reporters.
"Doctor Tin Myo Win is scheduled to go in on Sunday, at her request. Then she will tell him her situation, including whether she will meet with Relations Minister Aung Kyi," the lawyer said.
Asked about the concerns, he said: "It will be solved soon."
After meeting Aung San Suu Kyi, he said that he met with officials at the home affairs ministry.
"We had a very, very frank and open discussion. I would say the authorities are thinking positively" about Aung San Suu Kyi's demands, which include the right to receive monthly medical checkups and to allow her two maids to move in and out of her house, he said.
"Today is a very positive day," he added.
His meeting with the 63-year-old, known here simply as "The Lady," was their fourth since August 8. Until last month, she had not seen her lawyer since 2004. Their talks have focused on a legal brief appealing her detention.
Since they began meeting last month, she has refused to meet almost anyone else. She accepted a medical check-up last month, but refused a visit from her doctor last week.
She also turned away visiting UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari last month and the junta's liaison officer Aung Kyi last week.
Concerns about her health have mounted after one of her two maids was hospitalised last weekend with kidney trouble.
The regime denies that she is staging a hunger strike, and the NLD has stopped short of saying she was holding one.
But the party has said that her refusal of food supplies was "to denounce her continuing detention, which is unfair under the law."
The 63-year-old has no other source of food aside from the daily supplies provided by the military regime.
Her party won a landslide victory in a 1990 election but the junta never allowed it to take office. The military has ruled Myanmar since 1962.
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