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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has urged Burma's leaders and opposition to redouble their efforts to achieve national reconciliation.

Mr Ban said a return to the status quo before September's anti-government protests was not sustainable.

A UN envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, has just returned to the US from talks with Burma's generals and is due to brief the Security Council soon.

UN human rights rapporteur Paulo Sergio Pinheiro is also currently in Burma.

He is investigating how many people were killed in the military's brutal crackdown on the monk-led demonstrations.

Yong monks in Rangoon on 4 October
At the end of Mr Gambari's visit last week, detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said - via a statement read by the UN envoy - that she was ready to work with military leaders
They then agreed to let her meet members of her party for the first time in over three years. A government-appointed liaison officer also met with Ms Suu Kyi.