YANGON, Nov 11: Senior UN official Ibrahim Gambari met detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the ruling junta's top leader on Saturday during a visit to the military-run Southeast Asian nation.

Mr Gambari's meeting with Suu Kyi, which followed an audience with junta supremo Senior General Than Shwe, lasted about an hour at a government guest house in Yangon.

“It is over now,” said a home ministry source.

On his last visit in May, Mr Gambari was the first outsider in more than two years to meet the Nobel peace laureate, who has been in prison or under house arrest since May 2003, with her telephone disconnected and few visitors allowed by the military.

Amid tight security, a three-car convoy arrived at Mr Gambari's guest house, a short drive from Suu Kyi's lakeside villa. The cars, with blacked-out windows, left about one hour later.

Earlier, the Nigerian envoy flew to the new jungle capital, Nay Pyi Taw, for talks with Gen Than Shwe and other senior generals.

State media has reported little of Mr Gambari's visit at a time when the Myanmar government is under scrutiny by the UN Security Council, which held its first official session on the country in September.

Washington has said it would press for a Council resolution to put pressure on a regime it calls an `outpost of tyranny’.—Reuters