DALLAS - former first lady Laura Bush, a longtime lawyer free elections in the country spoke for the first time Friday with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has published the month isolated Asian last after more than seven years of house arrest.
Bush told the Associated Press that "it was exciting" finally get to talk Suu Kyi by telephone.
"I was particularly pleased to hear his voice loud how was and how enthusiastic," Bush said.
Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Prize in 1991 for his non-violent struggle for democracy, peace was first arrested by the military junta in Myanmar in 1989 and has spent the past 21 years in prison 15.
Bush, wife of former President George w. Bush has called for free elections in Myanmar, also known as Burma and spoke repeatedly fate Suu Kyi, raising the question of the meetings of the United Nations and with u.s. Senators.
Bush says Suu Kyi has said that in her house arrest, she listens to the voice of America radio and knew what support, it was all over the world. She said that she knew also visit 2008 Bush and his daughter, Barbara, made at a refugee camp in Thailand policy refugees from Myanmar.
She was very next but we have two assumed that the call has been spied. She has been notified and therefore I, Bush said.
Suu Kyi release last month was one week after first election in 20 years, Myanmar has been widely regarded as a sham. The 1990 elections was won in a landslide by League Suu Kyi national democracy party, but the military refused to and clamped instead holding on opponents.
Bush said it appears that the Government allows Suu Kyi to conduct meetings and telephone calls, she wants to.
"I hope that I'll have the chance to speak with her once more," said Bush. "I hope that one day we will have the chance to meet face to face."
The former first lady said that she also says Suu Kyi on an effort by George w. Bush Presidential Center is a repository for communications and oral histories of political dissidents who fight for the spread of democracy. Bush said that Suu Kyi was receptive to the idea of ever interviewed for the project.
The Centre, which will consist of an Institute Library, Museum and presidential politics is set to open in February 2013 on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, George and Laura Bush city after that he resigned in 2009.
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