The United Nations: UN Security Council calls Wednesday for “immediate termination of all forms of violence” in Myanmar and expressed hope that special envoys will be allowed to travel there to mediate the crisis.
The Association of Southeast Asian countries wanted to send its representatives, Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn, to Myanmar, where last year’s coup triggered mass protests and lethal acts on differences of opinion.
The UN Security Council looks forward to Minister of Minister’s visit to Myanmar “on the earliest occasion to meet all parties concerned and conduct mediation which facilitates the process of dialogue, and the provision of humanitarian aid,” the body said in a statement.
In that statement, it was designed by the UK and forwarded unanimously from the first anniversary of the deadly coup, the council “expressed deep concerns in the country’s violence in the country and stated the alarm at large amounts of displaced.”
More than 1,500 people have been killed by security forces and more than 11,000 were arrested since the coup, according to the local monitoring group.
The former civilian leader of the country, Nobel Laureate Prize Aung San Suu Kyi, and former President Wins Myint has been imprisoned.
In his statement, the Board updated calls for the two leaders to be released and “reaffirm the need for full humanitarian access, safe and without obstacles to everyone in need, and for full protection, safety and security of humanitarian and medical personnel.”