(VOVWORLD) - Britain has requested a Friday UN Security Council meeting on Myanmar. The UN Security Council issued a press statement on February 4 expressing “deep concern” over the military takeover in Myanmar and calling for the immediate release of Myanmar’s elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.
 A UN Security Council’s session in New York (Photo: AFP/VNA) |
Last Friday, the UN General Assembly held an informal session chaired by its president Volkan Bozkir to discuss the Myanmar crisis. The UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, who represents more than 50 UN member countries and eight regional organizations, made a speech, calling on the international community to work together to ease tensions in Myanmar.