UN Special Envoy to Myanmar to Step Down This Month
Since late 2021, Noeleen Heyzer has had the unenviable task of trying to mediate a conflict in a context of extreme polarization and mutual hostility.
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Since late 2021, Noeleen Heyzer has had the unenviable task of trying to mediate a conflict in a context of extreme polarization and mutual hostility.
Myanmar’s military has imported at least $1 billion worth of weapons and related material from Russia, China and other countries since its February 2021 coup, some of which it has used to carry out atrocities against civilians, according to a UN report released Wednesday.
A leaked email from the U.N. resident coordinator in Myanmar reveals that U.N. boats were used to transport junta officials to Bangladesh last week.
The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday urged Myanmar's junta to release the country's former leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the first resolution adopted over the situation in the Southeast Asian country since a coup occurred there in February last year.
The U.K.-drafted statement expressed its concern about the country’s growing humanitarian crisis and the “limited progress” on an ASEAN peace plan.