Myanmar Press Conference, information minister , Kyaw Hsan

Myanmar's Information Minister Kyaw Hsan delivers a speech during a press conference at the ministry in the new administrative city of Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Friday, Aug. 12, 2011.Myanmar's government has urged pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to officially register her National League for Democracy as a party so it can legally take part in politics.Information minister Kyaw Hsan said at a rare news conference Friday that the government has so far not cracked down on the group in the interests of national reconciliation.His suggestion came just two days before Suu Kyi plans to travel outside Yangon on her first political foray to the countryside since her release from seven years of house arrest last November. She was arrested after her last such trip in 2003.¦ The government dissolved the NLD after it failed to register for last November's general elections, which it claimed were unfair and undemocratic.(AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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