Sun Sep 30, 5:37 AM ET

YANGON - UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari met Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday in the main city Yangon after he earlier held talks with junta leaders, a security official said.

"They held a meeting of about one hour and 15 minutes," the source told AFP after Gambari met the democracy icon at a government guest house in the city formerly called Rangoon, their first meeting since November 2006.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the 62-year-old head of the opposition National League for Democracy and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been under house arrest in Yangon for most of the past 18 years.

Gambari, a Nigerian-born diplomat, arrived in Yangon earlier Sunday after meetings in the secluded capital Naypyidaw, 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Yangon, with junta leaders, diplomats said.

Gambari arrived in Naypyidaw on Saturday for talks, in which he was expected to convey international outrage over the regime's violent crackdown on mass demonstrations that erupted two weeks ago.

"Gambari was in Naypyidaw yesterday where he met junta leaders, including reportedly Senior General Than Shwe," a Western diplomat in Yangon told AFP, referring to the junta's number one figure.

He said there was no information yet as to the content of their talks.