SINGAPORE?US President Barack Obama sat down for the first time will all 10 heads of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), taking the occasion to personally ask Myanmar?s military ruler to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Philippine Foreign Undersecretary Enrique Manalo, who was in the first ASEAN-US leaders? meeting held Sunday afternoon, quoted Obama as saying: ?We are having constructive dialogue and we would like to have constructive results (with Myanmar).?
?Then he mentioned they also like to reiterate their appeal for the release of political prisoners and Aung San Suu Kyi,? he told reporters in a media briefing.
Asked about the reaction of Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein, Manalo said: ?He didn?t react.?
