SPECIAL ENVOY OF SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR MYANMAR TO VISIT YANGON, 19 - 22 MARCH

SPECIAL ENVOY OF SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR MYANMAR TO VISIT YANGON, 19 - 22 MARCH

The following statement on Myanmar was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Mr. Razali Ismail, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Myanmar, will visit Yangon from 19 to 22 March 2002, to continue his effort to help facilitate the national reconciliation process in Myanmar.

During his four-day visit, Mr. Razali is expected to meet with Government leaders, including Senior General Than Shwe, Prime Minister and Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), as well as with senior members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), including its General Secretary, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

The Secretary-General hopes that Mr. Razali’s mission will provide the process with a fresh momentum to assist the two sides to develop their confidence-building talks into a more substantive dialogue in the near future.  This will be Mr. Razali’s seventh mission since he was appointed as the Special Envoy in April 2000.

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