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Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has urged her supporters not to give up hope. She told them she would need help in bringing genuine democracy to Burma, something that one person could not do alone.

"This is what I've told them. I'm not going to be able to do this. You've got to do it with me. One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy."

Speaking at her party headquarters in Rangoon a day after her release from house arrest, she said freedom of speech was the basis of democracy. The BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson, who attended the news conference, said Aung San Suu Kyi sent a very clear message.

The press conference was one of the more chaotic, imaginable, people falling over, fighting each other, all through this, cut this calm, clear voice and the importance, as she sees it, of negotiation of keeping together of talking for the opposition to talk the same sort of language, and indeed, to talk to the government itself. Somebody said to her "What would be your message to the government?" And she said "I'd like to talk face to face."

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