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UN: UN
ENVOY SET TO MEET WITH MYANMAR'S TOP GENERAL:
01/10/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 01 October 2007 -
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s
Special Envoy to Myanmar has been told by authorities that he will be able to
meet the South-East Asian nation’s top general on Tuesday, the United Nations
announced today.
Ibrahim Gambari, who was dispatched by Mr. Ban to the region last week in
response to the deteriorating situation in Myanmar, “looks forward to meeting
Senior General Than Shwe,” UN Spokesperson Marie Okabe told reporters in New
York.
After arriving in Myanmar on Saturday afternoon, Mr. Gambari spent the
evening in the new capital, Naypyitaw.
He was received on Sunday by the Acting Prime Minister, Lieutenant-General
Thein Sein, along with the Cabinet Ministers for Information and Culture and the
Deputy Foreign Minister.
Later that afternoon in Yangon, Mr. Gambari met for over an hour with
opposition leader and Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. He also consulted
with the UN Country Team and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Myanmar has recently witnessed a wave of peaceful demonstrations, which began
last month to protest a surge in fuel prices and more recently have included
many of the country’s monks.
In a telephone conversation today, the Secretary-General asked Mr. Gambari
“to call on the Myanmar authorities to cease the repression of peaceful
protest, release detainees and to move more credibly and inclusively in the
direction of democratic reform, human rights and national reconciliation,” Ms.
Okabe said.
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