World's women leaders to press for Suu Kyi's release

Women leaders will write a letter to the government of Myanmar (Burma) to free pro-democracy activist, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize awardee for her non-violent struggle against a military dictatorship in her country. Presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye on Saturday said the suggestion to write to the Myanmar government was made by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo during the third meeting of the Women Leaders Working Group at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. “The President suggested that as a women’s group, they write a letter to the Burmese government to free Aung San Suu Kyi. The group agreed," Bunye said in a Blackberry email to Palace reporters. The group, which includes US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, held its meeting with the theme “Progress on Women’s Empowerment" at New York's Waldorf Hotel’s Empire Suite. - GMANews.TV