Myanmar crisis is main point for UN official visit to Southeast Asia

United Nations official is talking with various officials from Southeast Asia about the crisis in Myanmar.
The United Nations secretary-general’s special adviser on Myanmar has met with with officials in Vietnam as part of his consultations with regional leaders on the situation in the Southeast Asian nation where government forces cracked down on peaceful protesters just a few months ago, it was announced yesterday.

UN spokesperson Michele Montas told reporters Ibrahim Gambari met with the Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, and delivered a letter from secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, seeking support for his good offices’ effort in the Myanmar process. Mr. Gambari also met with the country’s Foreign Minister.

The Special Adviser arrived in Viet Nam from Singapore, where he met last week with regional leaders at the annual summit of the Association of South-east Asian Nations.

Mr. Gambari, who has visited Myanmar twice since the government began its crackdown against demonstrators a few months ago, will travel on to Cambodia and Laos before returning to New York at the end of this week.

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