UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres promised on Wednesday that he would do everything in his power to “mobilize all key actors and the international community to put pressure on Myanmar to ensure that the military coup fails.” .
“After the election, which I believe went smoothly and after a long period of transition, it is completely unacceptable for the election results and the popular will to be overturned,” Guterres told The Washington Post.
Asked about the military regime's crackdown on Myanmar's de facto political leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the UN chief said that if the 75-year-old “could be charged with anything, it would be too much. close to the military, that he protected them too much ”. “I hope that democracy will progress again in Myanmar, but that is why all the prisoners must be released, the constitutional order must be restored,” he added.
The UN Secretary-General also denounced the fact that the Security Council had not been able to reach an agreement “unanimously” since Tuesday, following its urgent convening at the initiative of the United Kingdom. The draft decision submitted earlier this week, a copy of which came into the possession of the French Agency, states that the SA condemns the “military coup” and demands the “immediate release” of all those arrested illegally.
He also demands the immediate lifting of the state of emergency imposed by the generals for a year. Negotiations continued Wednesday night between the 15 SA member states, diplomatic sources said, especially with China and Russia, which blocked the adoption of the declaration on Tuesday.
The Burmese military abruptly ended Myanmar's fragile, slow transition to democracy on Monday, imposing a state of emergency and arresting political leader Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Mead and other senior party officials. for the Republic.
