'Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is not satisfied with her meetings with the relations minister, mainly because there is no time frame' to the process, spokesman Nyan Win told reporters, using an honorific before her name.

'Let's hope for the best and prepare for the worst,' he quoted her as saying, adding she worried that Wednesday's 90-minute meeting, and another immediately afterwards with junta liaison minister Aung Kyi, might give rise to 'false hope'.

Ms Suu Kyi also told her colleagues she feared she was being strung along by the junta, a group of generals who have turned promise-breaking into an art form, not least by ignoring their humiliating 1990 election defeat.

The junta appointed Labour Minister Aung Kyi as a 'relations minister' to coordinate contacts with the Nobel peace prize winner in the wake of a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy protests in September.

She met with him for the fifth time on Wednesday, but there is no schedule for future talks. -- AFP, AP