Myanmar denied platform on last day of UNGA

27 September 2021
Myanmar denied platform on last day of UNGA
Ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun. Photo: OPCW/Flickr

No official representing Myanmar will speak today, the final day of the United Nations General Assembly plenary, U.N. officials said, in an apparent 11th-hour compromise that would deny a global platform to the country’s warring democratic and militarist factions, the New York Times reported.

Myanmar’s credentialed U.N. ambassador, U Kyaw Moe Tun, was scheduled to speak on Monday. Myanmar was previously included on a roster of speakers. But Stéphane Dujarric, the chief U.N. spokesman, said in an email on Saturday that “Myanmar is not on the speakers list.”

According to the report Mr. Kyaw Moe Tun did not respond to requests for comment but told Reuters that he had withdrawn from the list.