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Burgener says she still hopes to visit Myanmar after seven weeks spent in the region waiting for the junta that staged a coup in February to allow her in. ― Reuters pic
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NEW YORK, May 25 ― The UN special envoy for Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, said yesterday she still hopes to visit the country after seven weeks spent in the region waiting for the junta that staged a coup in February to allow her in.
During a meeting in Indonesia at the end of April with the head of the Myanmar junta, General Min Aung Hlaing “didn t say that he doesn t want to speak with me anymore,” the Swiss diplomat said at a virtual press conference in Bangkok, where she has spent most of her time since early April.
COVID in Canada, Ex-Chadian diplomats to Canada charged: In The News for May 25.
People wear face masks as they walk through the Atwater Market in Montreal, Monday, May 24, 2021. Quebec, which has seen case counts trend downward, lifted the last remaining emergency lockdown measures imposed on some of its hot spot regions on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes May 25, 2021 - 1:15 AM
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As the COVID-19 situation shows continuing signs of improvement in parts of Canada, several regions have begun moving toward loosening public health restrictions.
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Aung San Suu Kyi made her first in-person court appearance Monday since she was deposed as Myanmar’s de facto leader in the February 1 military takeover.
Her lawyers told journalists in the capital Naypyitaw they were allowed to meet with Suu Kyi for 30 minutes before the hearing to discuss the case. They said the 75-year-old Nobel Peace laureate sounded and looked healthy, and wished the people of Myanmar good health.
Suu Kyi also issued a defiant message about her National League for Democracy party, saying “our party grew out of the people so it will exist as long as people support it.”
Myanmar Citizens Turning to Defending Themselves Against Military, Sparking Concerns of War
On 5/25/21 at 10:27 AM EDT
Myanmar citizens are turning to defending themselves against the ruling military junta and are sparking concerns of civil war, the U.N. special envoy for the country warned on Monday.
Christine Schraner Burgener said that citizens are frustrated and fear the military that seized power in February through a coup. A civil war could happen, Schraner Burgener said, as protesters against the military are engaging in more offensive actions and are being trained by ethnic armed groups using homemade weapons.
Schraner Burgener wants to hold inclusive dialogue with ethnic armed groups, the army which is known as the Tatmadaw civil society and others but said, clearly it will not be easy to convince especially both sides to come to a table, but I offer my good offices.to avoid more bloodshed and civil war which would last a long time.