First Lady meets with UN Advisor on Burma at White House
First Lady Laura Bush meets with Ibrahim Gambari, UN Special Advisor on Burma, in her office at the White House in Washington on December 17, 2007. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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YANGON, Myanmar, March 8 (UPI) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi Saturday left her house in Yangon to meet with a special United Nations envoy, the BBC reported.
YANGON, Myanmar, March 7 (UPI) -- Ibrahim Gambari, the U.N. special envoy, arrived Thursday in Myanmar for another effort to get the military junta to talk to its opposition.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The United States has leveled additional sanctions against Myanmar's leaders for their "unacceptable" actions that thwart democracy, the White House said.
YANGON, Myanmar, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Amnesty International said Friday contrary to the Myanmar military junta's claim, political arrests are ongoing, with 96 coming just in the past two months.
YANGON, Myanmar, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- A top opposition leader says United Nations-backed talks between dissidents and Myanmar's regime are a sham to fend off international pressure.
YANGON, Myanmar, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- The military government of Myanmar relented Sunday on its 4-year-old ban of U.N. human rights envoy Sergio Pinheiro.
YANGON, Myanmar, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Myanmarese pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi met Friday with the military junta’s liaison minister.
NAY PI TAW, Myanmar, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The U.N. special envoy to Myanmar has told the ruling military junta in Nay Pi Taw it is critical political detainees be freed, a U.N. statement said.
