The Myanmar junta plans to shutter the office of the UN Special Envoy for Myanmar, according to a report by DVB.

The Naypyidaw office of former UN Special Envoy for Burma, Christine Schraner Burgener, is to be shuttered as the envoy’s term has concluded, the junta’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement issued 20 December.

The UN has not yet commented on the issue, the news agency says.

Though a new envoy, Noeleen Heyzer of Singapore, was appointed to replace Burgener on 25 October, it remains unclear when, or indeed if, she will be permitted to enter the country.

The UN established the office of its Special Envoy under the NLD administration following the Rohingya crisis in 2018.

A string of strident appeals had led the generals to accuse the previous UN envoy Burgener, a longtime Swiss diplomat, of “bias and interference” shortly before her tenure ended in October.