UN rights forum to hold a special program on Myanmar crisis
09 February, 2021
The UN People Rights Council will hold a particular session on Fri (Feb 12) to discuss the crisis in Myanmar following its elected civilian government was taken over by the armed service, the US said in a statement on Mon.
Britain and the European Union requested the meeting earlier on Monday, backed by 19 members of the 47-member discussion board, mainly Western countries joined by simply Japan and South Korea, it said.
The United States - which announced on Mon that it was time for the forum it quit in June 2018 - was among 28 observer states shown as supporting the move.
Supporters were discussing a good draft resolution to get presented for adoption at the program, diplomats said.
Tens of thousands of individuals took to the roads for a third time on Mon to protest against the coup that overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government.
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said his junta would hold a fresh election and hand power to the winner.
Julian Braithwaite, Britain's ambassador to the UN on Geneva, told an organisational assembly of the People Rights Council that the detention of elected politicians and civilians by the military "has grave implications for individual rights in the united states".
He noted that Thomas Andrews, the UN investigator found on individual rights in Myanmar, has called for convening a special session showing Myanmar citizens "they are not alone within their hour of threat and need."
"Above all, we should respond urgently to the plight of the persons in Myanmar and the rapidly deteriorating people rights circumstances there," Braithwaite said.
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