UNITED NATIONS / USA: U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari meets with Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on his return to the U.N. after mission to Myanmar

United Nations Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari briefed U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon on Thursday (October 04) regarding his four day visit to Myanmar. Gambari held talks with junta chief Than Shwe and met detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during his mission, but arrests and repression there have continued. Gambari is scheduled to brief the Security Council on his findings on Friday (October 05), and has said he will not publicly address his trip until that time. The Security Council met on Thursday to plan how they would handle Friday's meeting with Gambari. Chinese Ambassador to the U.N. told reporters shortly after the meeting that the Security Council should play a role to help Myanmar, but that the situation did not constitute an international threat. "There are problems there in Myanmar but these problems still we believe are basically internal. A solution for the Myanmar issue has to be found by the Myanmars themselves, between the government and different parties. No international imposed solution can help the situation," said Wang. Myanmar natives lined-up outside of the U.N. headquarters to plead for U.N. intervention. "The U.N. still insists that it's not international, that Burma does not threaten international peace. But it doesn't matter whether it threatens international peace or not. It concerns many peoples' lives, so we need U.N. intervention," said demonstrator Lin Bazan. The Myamar Junta says 10 people were killed in the crackdown on democratic protesters, but Western diplomats believe the figure is far higher. Witnesses say truckloads of prisoners were still being taken from the former capital, Yangon, on Thursday.

ITN Source | October 5, 2007

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