Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi expressed frustration to a U.N. envoy Feb. 2 over the world body's failure to persuade the country's hard-line military leaders to give up their monopoly on power, her party said.

U.N. special envoy to Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari (left) talks with Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon, Myanmar, on Feb. 2. AP PHOTO

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who has spent more than 13 of the past 19 years under house arrest, was briefly allowed out Feb. 2 for a rare meeting with U.N. representative Ibrahim Gambari.

Nyan Win, a spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, said that during the meeting, Suu Kyi, 63, explained to Gambari that "she was ready and willing to meet anyone'' to achieve political reform but "could not accept having meetings without achieving any outcome."

Suu Kyi's party has charged that Gambari's seven visits since 2007 have produced no tangible democratic progress, noting they have not persuaded the junta to release political prisoners nor to hold talks with the democratic opposition.

Last August, Suu Kyi snubbed Gambari by failing to keep an expected appointment with him and refusing to open the gates of her Yangon home to his representatives.

The gesture was surprising because Suu Kyi's house arrest keeps her in extreme isolation, with Gambari one of the rare outsiders — other than her lawyer and doctor — allowed to see her.