UN fails to agree on Myanmar statement, diplomats blame China, Russia

FRANCE 24
01/05/2021

UN Special Envoy to Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener had a long meeting with Myanmar junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing on the sidelines of an ASEAN meeting STR AFP/File

United Nations (United States) (AFP)

The UN Security Council failed to agree Friday on a joint statement on the crisis in Myanmar after a closed-door meeting, with diplomats blaming Beijing -- the junta's main backer -- and Russia for raising objections and putting forward their own competing text.

The session was convened by Vietnam to present the conclusions of a recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Indonesia. ASEAN is to appoint an envoy to help resolve the crisis sparked by the February 1 coup by the Myanmar military.

During the meeting, the UN Special Envoy to Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, who is currently touring the region, gave a report on her long meeting with Myanmar junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing, held on the sidelines of the ASEAN meeting.

After Coup in Myanmar, a Career Diplomat Takes a Stand

The New York Times

By Hannah Beech 

March 6, 2021 

At the United Nations, U Kyaw Moe Tun declared his new military masters illegitimate. They fired him, but he has no intention of leaving.

“I wanted to do something with maximum impact,” U Kyaw Moe Tun said of his Feb. 26 speech at the United Nations, where he denounced the generals now ruling Myanmar.Credit...Celeste Sloman for The New York Times

He knew his voice was quavering. But U Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s top envoy at the United Nations, kept going. The military rulers who had overthrown Myanmar’s elected government and gunned down peaceful protesters were illegitimate, he said. 

The words stumbled out, both a bit too high and a bit too low. “We will continue to fight,” he said, “for a government which is of the people, by the people, for the people.” 

Mr. Kyaw Moe Tun, a 51-year-old diplomat in a somber suit and tie, raised his hand in the three-finger salute of defiance from the “Hunger Games” films, which has come to symbolize Myanmar’s millions-strong protest movement against the coup-makers. The United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York resounded with applause. 

Bangladesh assisting Rohingya refugees: Diplomat

PRESS TV

Thursday, 02 January 2020

  Gousal Azam Sarker, Bangladesh’s ambassador to Iran, speaks in an exclusive interview with Press TV in the capital, Tehran, on January 1, 2020.

Bangladesh’s ambassador to Iran says his country is providing the Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar with basic needs and other types of assistance, Press TV reports.

Gousal Azam Sarker, Bangladesh’s ambassador to Iran, made the comment in an exclusive interview with Press TV during a visit to the news network’s headquarters in the capital, Tehran, on Wednesday.

Malaysian Diplomats Extend Aid to Rohingya In Delhi

Bernama.com

  By Shakir Husain, Last update: 21/02/2019

Bernama's correspondent in New Delhi Shakir Husain shares his take on the happenings in India.

NEW DELHI (Bernama) -- Shabbily dressed and barefoot children extended their little hands to receive packets of biscuits while women gathered to receive bags of foodstuffs.

The children, smiling and displaying an innocence disconnected with the reasons behind their misery, ran towards a group of Malaysian diplomats visiting their desolated Rohingya refugee camp in New Delhi.

It was a small gesture of aid made by some members of the Malaysian Administrative and Diplomatic Service Association (PPTD) through the High Commission of Malaysia.
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Link :http://www.bernama.com/en/features/news.php?id=1697133

Bangladesh protests to Myanmar over new arrivals from troubled state

Channal News Aia

06 Feb 2019 

A surge in fighting between armed rebel group the Arakan Army and government troops in Myanmar's Rakhine state has displaced thousands, according to the UN AFP/Richard SARGENT

DHAKA: Bangladesh has protested to Myanmar over a new influx of refugees fleeing troubled Rakhine state after clashes between security forces and an insurgent group, an official said Wednesday (Feb 6).

Foreign minister urges US to convince Myanmar on Rohingya issue

bdnews24.com

31 Jan 2019

New Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has sought the US support to resolve the Rohingya crisis “amicably”.

He said he has requested the ambassador in Dhaka to make use of the Washington’s good relations with other countries to convince Myanmar to end the crisis.

“He said they would do that,” the minister said after his meeting with Ambassador Earl Miller on Thursday at his office.

Bangladesh summons Myanmar ambassador again, protests baseless comments.

bdnews24.com

Published: 29 Jan 2019 08:47 PM BdST

Myanmar Ambassador Lwin Oo. File Photo

The foreign ministry has summoned the Myanmar ambassador in Dhaka to protest “fabricated and baseless” statement that Bangladeshis were involved in a terrorist attack on a police post at Maungdaw Township near the border.

 

Lwin Oo met Md Delwar Hossain, director general of the foreign ministry’s Southeast Asia wing, on Tuesday afternoon. The envoy was asked to explain “irresponsible and false” allegations by the officials of the General Administration Department of Myanmar implicating Bangladesh in the attack.

( 07.02.2018 ) ျပည္ေထာင္စု ဝန္ႀကီး ဦးေသာင္းထြန္း ဦးေဆာင္၍ သံတမန္ မ်ားႏွင့္ ကုလသမဂၢ ေဒသ ဆိုင္ရာ ကိုယ္စား လွယ္ ႐ုံး ယာယီ တာဝန္ခံတို႔ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ကြင္းဆင္းၾကည့္႐ႈ ( အဂၤလိပ္ - ၿမန္မာ )

ျပည္ေထာင္စုဝန္ႀကီး ဦးေသာင္းထြန္း ဦးေဆာင္၍ သံတမန္မ်ားႏွင့္ ကုလသမဂၢ ေဒသဆိုင္ရာ ကိုယ္စား လွယ္ ႐ုံး ယာယီတာဝန္ခံတို႔ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ေနရပ္စြန္႔ခြာ သူမ်ားကို ျပန္လည္လက္ခံေရးႏွင့္ ျပန္ လည္ ေန ရာခ်ထားျခင္းတို႔အတြက္ စီမံေဆာင္ရြက္ ထားရွိမႈမ်ားအား ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အသိုက္အဝန္းသို႔ မွန္ကန္တိ က်ေသာ သတင္း အခ်က္အလက္မ်ား မွ်ေဝေပးႏိုင္ေရး ကြင္းဆင္းၾကည့္႐ႈ

စစ္ေတြ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီ ၆

( 05.01.2017 )Burma/Myanmar - Situation of the Rohingya minority in Rakhine state (January 5, 2017) ( diplomatie.gouv.fr )

France reiterates its deep concern over the unacceptable violence perpetrated against those belonging to the Rohingya minority in Burma and calls for an end to that violence.

We emphasize that it is the Burmese authorities’ responsibility to protect civilian populations.

It is vital to fully investigate that violence in the most transparent, impartial way, and for those engaging in atrocities to stand trial.

The authorities must do everything necessary to ensure that all those in need in northern Rakhine state receive humanitarian assistance as quickly as possible. France, working with its European partners and within the UN, will see to it.


http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files/myanmar/events/article/burma-myanmar-situation-of-the-rohingya-minority-in-rakhine-state-05-01-17?xtor=RSS-4

Bangladesh summons Myanmar envoy on Rohingya’s

thedayafter
December 30, 2016

Dhaka, The Bangladesh Foreign Ministry has summoned the Myanmar ambassador in Dhaka and demanded the early repatriation of all its Rohingya Muslim citizens, a media report said.

Ambassador Myo Myint Than was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet Ambassador Kamrul Ahsan, Secretary (Bilateral and Consular), the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday,

( 29.12.2016 ) Bangladesh demands Myanmar take back Rohingyas

Dhaka Tribune

29.12.2016

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Myanmar Ambassador Myo Myint Than to demand early repatriation of all Myanmar nationals staying in the country after strongly protesting the unprovoked firing on six Bangladeshi fishermen in the Bay of Bengal.

( 29.12.2016 ) Indonesian Gov`t Sends Humanitarian Aid to Rohingya People

TEMPO.CO
29 December 2016

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian government has sent humanitarian aid for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said that humanitarian relief was collected from Indonesian people, business owners and the government. “This morning, some 10 containers [of humanitarian aid] were sent to Rakhine State,” the President said today at Tanjung Priok Port, Jakarta.

( 29.12.2016 ) Myanmar envoy handed protest note over firing

The Daily Star

December 29, 2016

Bangladesh government today handed a strongly worded protest note to Myanmar over the latter’s firing on Bangladeshis at the Bay of Bengal yesterday.

Myanmar envoy Myo Myint Than was summoned at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs around 1:00pm this afternoon, ministry insiders told The Daily Star.

( 12.12.2016 ) Burma Could Be Guilty of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ as Rohingya Crackdown Intensifies

TIMES
Nikhil Kumar @nkreports
Dec. 11, 2016

 

Rohingya Muslims who have fled from violence in Burma take shelter at the Leda unregistered Rohingya camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on Dec. 5 2016

"Things are not as they are being portrayed by the government"

Reports from Burma’s northern Arakan state, where violence against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority has forced tens of thousands to flee for their lives, suggest the situation there is “getting very close to what we would all agree are crimes against humanity,” the U.N.’s top human-rights investigator for the country has said. “I am getting reports from inside the country and from neighboring places too that things are not as they are being portrayed by the government. We are seeing a lot of very graphic and very disturbing photos and video clips,” Yanghee Lee, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the country, tells TIME.

( 07.12.2016 ) Clamp down on hate speech against Rohingyas, says ex-envoy

FMT  
Free Malaysia Today

December 7, 2016 8

  

Lamenting hate speech in Myanmar, former Malaysian ambassador to Myanmar Mazlan Muhammad suggests there are lessons for Malaysians in this too.

KAJANG: Beyond stopping the violence against the Rohingyas, the Myanmar government should clamp down on hate speech against the community, says a former Malaysian ambassador to the country.

( 07.12.2016 ) Former ambassador tells of persecution faced by Rohingyas ( Free Malaysia Today )

Robin Augustin,

December 7, 2016

 

Former Malaysian ambassador to Myanmar fears repression of Rohingyas could lead to radicalisation of the minority Muslim community

KAJANG: Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority could become radicalised if they continue to be oppressed by the Myanmar government, a former Malaysian ambassador to the country fears.

Mazlan Muhammad, a retired diplomat who served as Malaysia’s envoy to Myanmar from 2008 to 2012, opened up about the extent of the persecution faced by the Rohingyas to FMT.

( 06.12.2016 ) Don’t push Myanmar too hard, ex-diplomat tells Putrajaya ( Free Malaysia Today )

Robin Augustin
|December 6, 2016

An ex-diplomat says Malaysia must opt for constructive engagement and gentle persuasion in trying to stop violence against Rohingyas.


PETALING JAYA: A former diplomat has warned Putrajaya against pushing Myanmar too hard on the Rohingya issue, saying it might tempt it to go back to the days when it isolated itself from the rest of the world.

Malaysia to Summon Burmese Ambassador as Protests Mount Over Treatment of Rohingya

The Irrawaddy
25.11.2016

Protesters hold signs during a demonstration against what organizers say is the crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims in Burma, outside the Burmese embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 25, 2016. The text on the poster reads, “Rohingya are our brothers.” / Darren Whiteside / Reuters 

By Reuters 25 November 2016 

KUALA LUMPUR & DHAKA – Malaysia will summon Myanmar’s ambassador over the crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in northwestern Arakan State, it said on Friday, as protesters across Southeast Asia demonstrated against the rising violence.

Malaysia to summon Myanmar envoy on Rohingya as protests mount

REUTERS
By Joseph Sipalan and Ruma Paul
KUALA LUMPUR/DHAKA
November 25, 2016 

[1/2]Muslims protest against what they say is Myanmar's crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims, outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand November 25, 2016. REUTERS/Jorge Silva Acquire Licensing Rights

( 24.11.2016 ) Bangladesh briefs foreign diplomats on Rohingya influx concerns ( bdnews24.com )

Senior Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 2016-11-24



Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali has told Dhaka-based diplomats about the government’s concerns over the influx of Rakhine Muslims into Bangladesh despite the border guards’ efforts to stop the flow.

He briefed them on the evolving situation in Myanmar and Bangladesh-Myanmar relations at State Guest House Padma on Thursday.