YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) -- Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party refused an invitation Friday to meet a leader of the military regime because she was forbidden from attending, the party said.

The government had invited the Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) for talks with deputy Minister for Home Affairs Brig. Gen. Myint Maung at the ministry on Saturday, the 10th anniversary of a bloody army crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners.

The invitation was addressed to NLD Chairman Aung Shwe and said he could bring any NLD official he liked -- except Suu Kyi or the two party vice chairmen, Tin Oo and Kyi Maung, the NLD said.

Without an invitation for Suu Kyi, the NLD declined the invitation.

"Since the purpose of the meeting was not mentioned in the letter, and also because the party cannot accept the conditions ... the invitation was declined by the party," the NLD said in a statement.

Suu Kyi is the daughter of Myanmar's national hero and founding father Aung San, who led the country's independence struggle in the 1940s but was assassinated in 1947. Burma, now known as Myanmar, gained independence from Britain the following year.

Government officials met Aung Shwe last year but have steadfastly refused to see Suu Kyi, the party's secretary general and an international symbol of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement.

The military, which has ruled Myanmar since 1962, has painted Suu Kyi as selfish and stubborn for insisting that no meeting with her party be held without her. The party accuses the government of trying divide-and-rule tactics.

On Thursday, Suu Kyi demanded the government remove security personnel stationed at her home in what was seen as a new challenge to the military's authority.

Guards have been posted at Suu Kyi's house since she was released from six years' house arrest in 1995.

At the time of her release, Suu Kyi said she wanted the government's guards on the premises for her own safety.

The NLD has not said why the guards had been asked to go, but the request was made shortly after a six-day standoff with authorities that ended with Suu Kyi being forcibly dragged back home.

A government spokesman said in a press release that authorities were "happy to comply" with Suu Kyi's request and that discussions on the matter were under way.

Suu Kyi left her residence for the first time in a week late on Friday and made a 40-minute visit to the Yangon NLD headquarters, witnesses said.

Suu Kyi has set an August 21 deadline for the ruling State Peace and Development Council to allow the parliament elected in 1990 to finally convene.

The NLD won that election overwhelmingly, but the military refused to relinquish power and has instead embarked on a years-long process to craft a new constitution. The NLD is boycotting the effort.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.