UN envoy to meet junta as Security Council vows to keep pressure

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MYANMAR, Nov 14 (AFP): A UN human rights envoy was Wednesday due to meet with top Myanmar junta officials as the Security Council said the generals must to more to ensure a dialogue with the opposition.
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro would also meet with Labour Minister Aung Kyi who was appointed to liaise with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, an official said.
In New York, UN Security Council president Marty Natalegawa, Indonesia's UN envoy, said they welcomed recent positive steps by the generals but members had expressed concern "that many prisoners are still in jail and new arrests have occurred."
Police on Tuesday arrested prominent labour rights activist Su Su Nway in Yangon while Pinheiro was meeting with officials in the isolated new capital Naypyidaw, 400 kilometres (250 miles) to the north.
A source with knowledge of the matter told AFP Su Su Nway was seized while posting anti-government leaflets.
A pro-government blog said she was arrested along with a 25-year-old colleague named Bo Bo after they posted leaflets on a billboard used for anti-US statements, while two others managed to escape.
Su Su Nway, 35, had been in hiding since leading a protest in Yangon in late August over soaring fuel prices.
Human rights groups have called on Pinheiro to pressure the junta to release all political prisoners during his mission to investigate the deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests and other rights abuses.
The United Nations said he would be allowed to meet prisoners, following his meeting Tuesday with Home Affairs Minister Major-General Maung Oo.
"The special rapporteur was given assurances that he will be able to interview detainees, before the end of his mission, as requested," the UN said in a statement.
He also talked with members of a newly established government human rights body.
Amnesty International has estimated that 700 people arrested over the recent protests were still in detention, although the government said only 91 of the 3,000 originally rounded up were being held.