UN Security Council to debate state of affairs in Myanmar following navy coup

Image Source : AP Myanmar’s navy stand guard at a checkpoint manned with an armored autos blocking a street resulting in the parliament constructing in Naypyitaw.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday will focus on the state of affairs in Myanmar, the place the navy staged a coup after detaining prime political figures, together with de facto chief Aung San Suu Kyi, and take a look at a “range of measures” with an concept of respecting the individuals’s will expressed within the November normal election.
Myanmar’s navy on Monday staged a coup and detained Suu Kyi and different prime members of her governing occasion. The announcement on military-controlled Myawaddy TV got here after an earlier declaration that as a result of nationwide stability was in jeopardy, all authorities features could be transferred to navy chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing.
It was additionally introduced that the navy had taken management of the nation for one yr.
The United Kingdom, President of the Security Council for the month of February, will maintain closed-door dialogue on Myanmar when the Council can be anticipated to listen to from Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener.
“We wish to handle the long run menace to peace and safety in fact working intently with Myanmar’s Asian and ASEAN neighbors,” Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month, advised reporters throughout a digital press briefing.
She stated the subject of Myanmar was initially scheduled to be mentioned within the Council later this week, however was moved as much as Tuesday “given the developments” within the nation over the weekend, underscoring the “urgent” want to debate the state of affairs following the coup.
The Council final mentioned Myanmar in September 2020, earlier than the November elections.
When requested if the Security Council will focus on the difficulty of sanctions, Woodward stated the facility organ of the UN will “want to have as constructive a discussion as possible on Myanmar and look at a range of measures with the idea of respecting the people’s will expressed in the vote and releasing civil society leaders.”
“Those shall be our overriding goals and we are going to wish to think about measures that can transfer us in direction of that finish,” she stated.
The Council assembly is predicted to be a closed-door dialogue in an effort to enable for a “frank discussion”, she stated.
“At the second, we do not have particular concepts on the measures. We are, to start with, making an attempt to ascertain what is occurring after which focus on in our nationwide capability…so to convey collectively a way of what the UN Security Council can most successfully do when it comes to the measures it’d take versus what particular person nations may do bilaterally. The goal stays to see a restoration of democracy and the discharge of prisoners within the first occasion and an finish to the coup and the navy rule,” she stated.
The UK stays deeply involved by the humanitarian plight of the Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar in addition to in Bhasan Char, the island the place Bangladesh has been transferring a few of the refugees to, Woodward stated.

Stephane Dujarric, the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, stated on the each day press briefing the occasions which have taken place in Myanmar could have a ripple impact.
“One of those impacts is not only delaying any safe and voluntary return of those refugees that have made it into Bangladesh and other countries… and in other countries, we do not know what will happen to the Rohingya that are… remain in Rakhine State,” he stated.
He stated Burgener stays actively engaged on the difficulty in Myanmar and she or he has spoken to Myanmar interlocutors outdoors the nation.
She is making an attempt to attach with leaders in Naypyitaw however communications with the Myanmar capital are “very difficult” at this second, Dujarric stated, including that colleagues within the UN nation group on the bottom in Myanmar are additionally following the state of affairs intently with deep concern, particularly in gentle of the necessity to stop and reply to the continuing pandemic.
“They are working to ensure that the recent events do not adversely impact the most vulnerable people in Myanmar. The UN team has supported Myanmar’s COVAX application, as well as the national COVID-19 and vaccination plans by assessing the country’s readiness and mapping the cold chain capacity,” he stated.
When requested whether or not the UN had any info on Suu Kyi and different leaders who’ve been detained, Dujarric stated: “No, we do not… we have not been able to get information.”
“Our Special Envoy has been making an attempt to succeed in her interlocutors in Naypyitaw. She’s not been capable of get via, and our nation group has not had any info,” he stated.
The UN official careworn that it was essential that each one these individuals who have been detained be launched, including that nobody within the UN has been capable of attain the present authorities in Myanmar because of the communications challenges.
On whether or not the Secretary General would search to speak to the navy leaders in command of Myanmar, Dujarric stated the UN chief is all the time prepared to speak to anybody to attempt to advance the state of affairs in the proper method, be that the individuals straight concerned or regional powers.
“I feel what we’re going through proper now could be a state of affairs that is nonetheless a bit obscure. What we do know is that the desire of the individuals of Myanmar has been overturned in an undemocratic method, and that should change. The will of the individuals must be revered,” Dujarric stated.
He emphasised that it was essential for the worldwide group to talk with one voice and “what will come out of the Security Council, if something does come out, will just add more weight to that call.” 
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