UN envoy meets with Suu Kyi, junta leaders

  • 12/15/2022
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YANGON, Myanmar, September 30, SPA -- A U.N. envoy held back-to-back meetings Sunday with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar's military rulers, trying to find a peacefulsolution to the crisis that has engulfed the impoverishedcountry. The separate talks occurred as thousands of troops lockeddown Myanmar's largest cities Sunday. Scores of people werearrested overnight, further weakening an uprising to end 45years of military dictatorship, the Associated Press reported. Ibrahim Gambari, the U.N.'s special envoy to Myanmar, wentto the remote bunker-like capital Naypyitaw on Saturday tomeet with the junta and stayed overnight, diplomats said. On Sunday, he returned to Yangon and was whisked to theState Guest House to meet Suu Kyi, who was brought out ofhouse arrest to see the U.N. envoy. The meeting lasted about 90 minutes, said the diplomats,who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing protocol. Details of the meeting were not immediately known.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/486910

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