Reuters: U.N. chief told Myanmar supremo of worries about vote – Louis Charbonneau

8 March 2010, 12:00 pm

United Nation – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he sent a letter to Myanmar’s junta chief to voice concern about the credibility of this year’s nationwide election, the country’s first in 20 years.Ban said he wrote to Senior General Than Shwe 10 days ago “expressing my concern about this lack of progress” on [...]... Read More »

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