UPDATE 2-U.N. chief vows to rally global pressure to make sure Myanmar coup fails Reuters 2/3/2021
By Michelle Nichols
NEW YORK, Feb 3 (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pledged on Wednesday to mobilize enough international pressure on Myanmar s military to make sure that this coup fails as the U.N. Security Council tries to negotiate a statement on the crisis.
The Myanmar army detained the country s leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others on Monday in response to election fraud , handed power to military chief Min Aung Hlaing, and imposed a state of emergency for one year. We will do everything we can to mobilize all the key actors and international community to put enough pressure on Myanmar to make sure that this coup fails, Guterres said during an interview broadcast by The Washington Post. It is absolutely unacceptable after elections - elections that I believe took place normally - and after a large period of transition.
Myanmar military plan for new elections should be discouraged - U.N. official Reuters 2/2/2021
By Michelle Nichols
NEW YORK, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The party of Myanmar s leader Aung San Suu Kyi won a landslide victory in November and a proposal by the military, which seized power on Monday, to hold new elections should be discouraged, a senior U.N. official told the Security Council on Tuesday.
U.N. Myanmar envoy Christine Schraner Burgener briefed the council in a private meeting after the Myanmar army detained Suu Kyi and others in response to election fraud , handed power to military chief Min Aung Hlaing, imposed a state of emergency for one year and pledged to hold new elections.
U N Security Council approves new U N envoys to mediate Libya, Mideast reuters.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reuters.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Michelle Nichols
NEW YORK, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday approved a proposal by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to appoint Bulgarian Nickolay Mladenov as the U.N. Libya special envoy and Norwegian Tor Wennesland as the U.N. Middle East envoy, diplomats said.
Mladenov will replace Ghassan Salame, who stepped down as the U.N. Libya envoy in March due to stress, and Wennesland succeeds Mladenov, who has spent the past five years as the U.N. mediator between Israel and the Palestinians.
The appointments end months of bickering among council members sparked by a U.S. push to split the Libya role, with one person running the U.N. political mission and another focused on conflict mediation. The Security Council agreed to that proposal in September, but Russia and China abstained.