"The fact that I am the only party being prosecuted shows the partiality of the prosecution," the Nobel Peace Prize laureate said in the statement, which was submitted to the court Tuesday.
Outrage from Asian and Western leaders, including President Barack Obama, has included accusations that the junta is trying to keep Suu Kyi in detention during elections it has planned for next year.
A pale and weak looking Suu Kyi insisted in testimony Tuesday that she did not violate the law.
The statement released Wednesday by Suu Kyi's party noted that when Yettaw first tried to visit her house, in November 2008, she reported the incident to authorities through her personal doctor, but no action was taken.
Suu Kyi said she also intended to report his visit this month through her doctor, Tin Myo Win, but he was not allowed into her house and was later held by authorities for more than a week.
"This incident occurred because of a security breach (by authorities). However, until now no action has been taken on security," Suu Kyi said in the statement.
Obama said Tuesday that Suu Kyi's continued detention, isolation and "show trial based on spurious charges" cast serious doubt on the Myanmar government's willingness to be a responsible member of the international community.
Asian and European ministers, meeting in Vietnam, urged Myanmar to release Suu Kyi, lift restrictions on political parties, and prepare for free, fair and multiparty elections in 2010. Myanmar's neighbor Thailand has said it has "grave concerns" about the trial.
"Aung San Suu Kyi is an indispensable partner in the dialogue leading to national reconciliation in Myanmar," Jan Kohout, deputy prime minister of the Czech Republic, said in Hanoi. "She should be released immediately." The Czech Republic currently holds the presidency of the European Union.
Diplomats and reporters, including one for The Associated Press, were allowed into the courtroom for Tuesday's session, the second time during the trial that access has been granted.
Suu Kyi rose to prominence as a leader of a 1988 democracy uprising that the military brutally suppressed. Her latest term of house arrest was to have ended Wednesday, according to her supporters. The junta argues it would have expired in November, but in any event has canceled her house arrest order, apparently because this is required by law when a suspect is charged with a crime.
******************NLD party marks bitter anniversary*******************
Supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi Wednesday marked the 19th anniversary of an election victory annulled by Myanmar's ruling junta, as an American man who triggered the democracy icon's trial was set to testify.
Dozens of plainclothes security officials videotaped and photographed people entering the event, including some western diplomats, while security was boosted across the city, witnesses said.
The NLD won Myanmar's last democratic elections on May 27, 1990 by a landslide, but the military regime never allowed Aung San Suu Kyi to form a government.
"We are releasing them to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and Tin Oo," an announcer said as the birds and balloons were sent into the air. Tin Oo is the detained deputy leader of the party.
Aung San Suu Kyi and Tin Oo have both been detained since May 30, 2003 -- six years ago on Saturday -- following a deadly attack on her convoy during a party visit to northern Myanmar by an allegedly government-backed mob.
Myanmar has been ruled by the military since 1962.
***************A victim of show trial: US*************************
US President Barack Obama called on Myanmar's junta to "immediately and unconditionally" free democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, saying she was the victim of a spurious show trial.
Obama escalated US pressure on Myanmar's ruling generals after the Nobel laureate took the stand for the first time in her trial at Yangon's notorious Insein jail and argued she had not violated the terms of her house arrest.
"I call on the Burmese government to release National League for Democracy Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from detention immediately and unconditionally," Obama said in a written statement.
"I strongly condemn her house arrest and detention, which have also been condemned around the world.
"Aung San Suu Kyi's continued detention, isolation, and show trial based on spurious charges cast serious doubt on the Burmese regime's willingness to be a responsible member of the international community," Obama said.
Obama lauded Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) for her "profound patriotism, sacrifice, and the vision of a democratic and prosperous Burma" despite being confined to years of house arrest.
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