Reuters-UN official begins visit to

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Subject: Re: Reuters-UN official begins visit to Myanmar Thursday 

--- TIN KYI <tinkyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> UN official begins visit to Myanmar Thursday
> 08:37 p.m Oct 13, 1999 Eastern
> UNITED NATIONS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A senior U.N.
> official begins a visit to
> Myanmar on Thursday, seeking to promote a dialogue
> between the Asian
> country's military government and the opposition,
> the United Nations said.


A response from the junta will be very clear that the
SPDC cannot hold dialogue with the NLD. So what will
the UN do next?

East Timoe model is the best example for Burma, and I
personally recomand on that.   



> Alvaro de Soto, an assistant secretary-general for
> political affairs, who
> has visited the country about five times, will
> travel to the isolated nation
> as an emissary of Secretary-General Kofi Annan and
> submit a report to the
> U.N. General Assembly.
> 
> The Assembly has asked Annan to try and end the
> country's isolation by
> persuading the government to negotiate with the
> opposition National League
> for Democracy (NLD), which is led by Nobel Peace
> Prize winner Aung San Suu
> Kyi.
> 
> The assembly has condemned Myanmar, formerly Burma,
> for severe human rights
> violations ranging from forced labour to torture of
> prisoners, mainly
> students, professionals and academics.
> 
> The government earlier this year postponed a visit
> by De Soto but gave no
> reasons for it. New arrangements were worked out
> last month when Myanmar's
> foreign minister, Win Aung, attended the annual
> General Assembly debate.
> 
> De Soto last visited Myanmar a year ago at which
> time he raised the
> possibility of World Bank development aid if the
> government initiated a
> dialogue with the opposition.
> 
> So far the military junta has refused to negotiate
> with Suu Kyi's party
> unless she disbands a committee designed to
> represent parliament, a
> challenge to its rule.
> 
> The NLD won the country's last election in 1990 but
> the military ignored the
> results and has since tried to silence the party
> through arrests and
> intimidation.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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