U.N. Envoy meets Myanmar leader

YANGON, Myanmar - Former Indonesian foreign minister Ali Alatas, visited Myanmar as the special Envoy of U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, speaking to reporters at his hotel Friday afternoon in Yangon, Aug 19, 2005. Alatas said he had a 90 minutes meeting with Myanmar top leader Sr.Gen. Than Shwe at the parliament building Friday morning and discussed about the U.N. reform. Alatas arrived Yangon Thursday as Annan's Envoy to the 2005 World Summit scheduled to be held next month at the U.N. headquarters in New York. Over 170 head of governments are expected to attend the summit, but it is not clear yet that Myanmar leader Than Shwe will be among them.