The UN Security Council approved its first-ever resolution on Myanmar on Wednesday.
UNITED NATIONS—The UN Security Council approved its first-ever resolution on Myanmar on Wednesday, demanding an immediate end to violence in the Southeast Asian nation and urging its military rulers to release all “arbitrarily detained” prisoners including ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and to restore democratic institutions.
US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken applauded the adoption of the resolution as an important step but said the Council had more work to do “to advance a just solution” to the crisis. That ended with the military takeover on the day Parliament was to reconvene following November 2020 elections which Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party won overwhelmingly—an outcome the military claims without evidence was based on fraud.
The plan calls for the immediate cessation of violence, a dialogue among all concerned parties, mediation of the dialogue process by an Asean special envoy, provision of humanitarian aid through Asean channels and a visit to Myanmar by the association’s special envoy to meet all concerned parties. Current UN special envoy Noeleen Heyzer and Asean special envoy Prak Sokhonn, a Cambodian minister, have both visited Myanmar but neither was allowed to meet Suu Kyi.
Elaine Pearson, Asia director at Human Rights Watch, said: “The Security Council resolution is a momentous step on behalf of the people of Myanmar, opening the door toward holding Myanmar’s brutal generals to account.”
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