Washington, Oct 6, SPA -- Talks on Friday between the top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar and the southeast Asian nation’s ruling military junta on last week’s violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators were not productive, the State Department said.“It was not a terribly edifying meeting from our perspective,” spokesman Sean McCormack said after the talks between U.S. Charge de Affairs Shari Villarosa and a deputy foreign minister from the military regime, held at the junta’s administrative capital of Naypyidaw.“What she [Villarosa] heard in private wasn’t much different that what you hear from the government in public, and our views on their interpretation of events is well known,” McCormack told reporters. It was the first high-level meeting between the two sides since last week’s bloody repression of peaceful pro-democracy protests led by Buddhist monks, with at least 13 people reported killed and more than 2,000 arrested. The U.S. view is that the brutal suppression of peaceful protesters was “disgraceful,” McCormack said.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/488460