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Kul Chandra Gautam, a Nepali diplomat, is a former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF. (www.kulgautam.org). He is also the author of the recently-published Global Citizen from Gulmi: My Journey from the Hills of Nepal to the Halls of the United Nations
Kul Gautam, UNICEF Regional Director for Asia-Pacific meeting Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon in 1998.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 8 2021 (IPS) - The 1 February 2021 coup d’état by Myanmar’s military (Tatmadaw), has been widely condemned by all the world’s democratic leaders, human rights activists and genuine friends of the people of Myanmar around the globe. In an unusual manner for the world’s top diplomat, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has gone so far as to urge the world community to make sure that Myanmar’s military coup fails.
When, in mid-August 2004, Wilton Gregory, then-bishop of Belleville, Illinois, showed up in Daejeon, South Korea, for the triennial meeting of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conferences, his nameplate had been corrected to Gregory Wilton. They certainly didn t know of any St. Wiltons. The 100-plus bishops and theologians there from East, South and Central Asia knew little of this American but were surprised and delighted that he was, like almost all of them, a man of color.
The meeting had a detailed agenda and would produce an extensive final statement plus a Message to the People of God in Asia and People of Good Will. This gathering every three years brings together the cream of the Asian church, theologians, men and women religious and lay experts.