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After Noeleen Heyzer met Min Aung Hlaing on Wednesday, a junta spokesman quickly declared it an ‘official meeting’ between the UN official and the ‘Myanmar government’.
As the number of people killed by the junta passes 2,000, the National Unity Government called for material support of the kind that is being provided to Ukraine.
In a national speech on Saturday, the NUG Acting President said that there was no way to go back to the 2008 Constitution and they had been making an effort to build unity with remaining ethnic organizations.