Newly-appointed Myanmar Liaison Minister U Aung Kyi met with Aung San Suu Kyi, detained leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), at the state guest house in Yangon Thursday afternoon, state-run TV Myanmar reported in an evening telecast.

It was the first meeting between U Aung Kyi and Aung San Suu Kyi since the prior, who is now Minister of Labor, was named concurrently liaison minister on Oct.8, responsible for getting link with the latter.

The appointment of U Aung Kyi as the liaison minister came after Special Envoy of United Nations Secretary-General Ibrahim Gambari's urgent mission to Myanmar from Sept. 29 to Oct. 4, during which, Senior-General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), offered through Gambari to meet and talk personally and conditionally to Aung San Suu Kyi.

Gambari, Special Adviser of UN. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has been agreed by Myanmar to visit again the country in the first week of November to go on with UN's mediation efforts for the country's national reconciliation, according to UN sources.

Gambari has been touring six Asian nations since Oct. 15 to consult with regional partners of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, China and Japan about the situation in Myanmar.

The UN Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted on Oct. 11 a presidential statement on Myanmar calling for efforts to achieve an inclusive national reconciliation in the country.

Meanwhile, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro has also been agreed by the Myanmar government to visit again Myanmar by next month to look into the human rights situation in the country, UN sources added.