YANGON, Myanmar – The legal team of Myanmar’s jailed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was given access to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Thursday, a day before her trial is to resume for final arguments, her lawyer said.

Authorities in the military-ruled country denied permission for Suu Kyi’s lawyers to meet her Wednesday, according to Nyan Win, one of Suu Kyi’s defense lawyers as well as spokesman for her party.

Nyan Win said the legal team was allowed to meet her for over two hours Thursday to finalize their 23-page closing argument.

Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win walks to the ASEAN Regional Forum meeting at a hotel in Phuket, southern Thailand, Thursday, July 23, 2009. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sharply criticized the military rulers of Myanmar for human rights abuses, ‘particularly violent actions that are attributed to the Burmese military concerning the mistreatment and abuse of young girls.’ She said an Obama administration policy review on Myanmar is on hold pending the outcome of the trial of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is accused of violating the terms of her house arrest. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Suu Kyi, 64, is charged with violating the terms of her house arrest by harboring an uninvited American man who swam secretly to her lakeside home and stayed for two days. She is being detained at Myanmar’s notorious Insein Prison.

Suu Kyi, who was been under house arrest for nearly 14 of the last 20 years, faces a possible five-year prison term.

The decision to allow legal access to Suu Kyi came as U.S., European and Asian officials — including the top diplomat from Myanmar — wound up a conference in neighboring Thailand at which Myanmar’s human rights record was in the spotlight.

The trial has drawn condemnation from the international community and Suu Kyi’s local supporters, who worry the ruling junta has found an excuse to keep her detained through elections planned for next year. The verdict is expected sometime next month.

Also on trial, and facing the same charges as Suu Kyi, are two female members of her party who were her sole companions under house arrest. The American, John Yettaw, 53, of Falcon, Missouri, is charged with trespassing.

Yettaw has pleaded not guilty and explained in court that he had a dream that Suu Kyi would be assassinated and he had gone to warn her.

Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been under military rule since 1962.

Suu Kyi’s opposition party won national elections in 1990, but Myanmar’s generals refused to relinquish power.