[JURIST] Authorities in Myanmar on Wednesday granted 39 foreign diplomats and journalists limited access to the trial of pro-democracy advocate and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. Suu Kyi met briefly with representatives of Thailand, the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); Russia, the current president of the UN Security Council [official websites]; and Singapore during the third day of her trial at Rangoon's Insein prison [BBC backgrounder]. British Ambassador to Myanmar Mark Canning [official profile], who did not meet privately with Suu Kyi, said in a BBC interview [transcript] that it was not clear whether Myanmar would continue to grant access to the trial:

this was billed as a concession and I think the view of it is it’s better to have access of the sort we had today than not to have it. But I don’t think anyone would be taken in by the fact that this does not change the fundamental realities of what is going on. But, that said it was good that we were allowed in. Whether ... there will be a repeat of that, I’m not so sure.