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UN seeks Special Envoy’s access to Myanmar to evaluate situation
United News of Bangladesh | Published: 15:29, May 27,2021 | Updated: 15:57, May 27,2021
President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly Volkan Bozkır has reiterated his call on the military authorities to grant the UN Special Envoy Christine Schraner Burgener access to Myanmar to assess the situation first-hand under agreeable conditions while fostering the conditions for a frank and open dialogue.
‘The world has not given up on Myanmar. We have not forgotten the plight of the Rohingya people,’ he said during his visit to Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday.
Civil Society Groups Urge UN Arms Embargo on Myanmar
Voice of America
06 May 2021, 09:05 GMT+10
NEW YORK - More than 200 civil society and human rights groups from around the world have called on the U.N. Security Council to impose an arms embargo against Myanmar, in hopes of preventing the military from carrying out more murders and atrocities. The U.N. Security Council s failure to even discuss an arms embargo against the junta is an appalling abdication of its responsibilities toward the people of Myanmar, Louis Charbonneau, U.N. director at Human Rights Watch, told reporters Wednesday in a call with some of the groups that signed the letter. The council s occasional statements of concern in the face of the military s violent repression of largely peaceful protesters [are] the diplomatic equivalent of shrugging their shoulders and walking away.
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More than 200 civil society and human rights groups from around the world have called on the U.N. Security Council to impose an arms embargo against Myanmar, in hopes of preventing the military from carrying out more murders and atrocities.
“The U.N. Security Council’s failure to even discuss an arms embargo against the junta is an appalling abdication of its responsibilities toward the people of Myanmar,” Louis Charbonneau, U.N. director at Human Rights Watch, told reporters Wednesday in a call with some of the groups that signed the letter. “The council’s occasional statements of concern in the face of the military’s violent repression of largely peaceful protesters [are] the diplomatic equivalent of shrugging their shoulders and walking away.”