UNSC Regrets Myanmar's Slow Progress In Initiating Dialogue With Opposition
(RTTNews) - The United Nations Security Council has called for the early return of UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari while regretting the Myanmar junta's slow progress in initiating a dialogue with the opposition party to facilitate an early national reconciliation.
The Security Council on Thursday reiterated its support for Gambari's mediation efforts and for the objectives in its October 11 statement. The statement strongly deplored the junta's brutal crackdown and called for a "genuine dialogue" between the junta and the pro-democracy opposition.
The council said that it "underscored the importance of making further progress" on the objectives it set out in the October statement, which include protecting human rights and releasing all political prisoners and detainees. "An early visit to Myanmar by Gambari could help facilitate this," it said.
Gambari told reporters after meeting with the council that he has been asked to return to Myanmar later this month but the country's military rulers have said that it's not convenient and preferred a mid-April visit.
However, the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the government that it's not acceptable, and the council is in the process of negotiating an early, rather than a later, return to Myanmar.
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