At the 10th meeting of members of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations Headquarters, Myanmar’s Permanent Representative U Kyaw Moe Tun called on the international community to monitor the military junta so it does not destroy the efforts made by the previous civilian government to support the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. / ShutterstockMandalay, Burma, Apr 9, 2022 / 21:56 pm (CNA).Government soldiers departed from the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart and its compound in downtown Mandalay Saturday after a search for weapons turned up only two ceremonial swords given to Archbishop Marco Tin Win, sources told CNA."No one was hurt but they were shaken up," pointed out one unidentified local cleric.Several dozen soldiers entered the cathedral Friday afternoon prior to a Lenten service and for several hours detained parishioners, the archbishop, archdiocesan officials, and a CNA correspondent.Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Mandalay, Burma. ShutterstockA local informant allegedly alerted authorities that Win Tin was hiding and supplying weapons to rebels throughout the country, CNA was told.But the only weapons soldiers found were two unsharpened, ceremonial swords given to the archbishop to commemorate his pastoral visit to the Diocese of