Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is on a surprise visit to military-run Myanmar on behalf of a group of elder statesmen that engages in peace-making and human rights initiatives around the world, a South Korean diplomat said Monday.
The arrival of Ban, the deputy chair of The Elders, in the capital Naypyitaw was announced Sunday night by state television MRTV. It said he arrived with a small delegation, and was greeted by the deputy ministers for defence and foreign affairs."This visit by Mr. Ban Ki Moon was totally scheduled by The Elders. We are not engaged in this process," said a South Korean Embassy official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media.
Myanmar has been wracked by violent unrest since the army ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on Feb. 1, 2021. The army's takeover prevented Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party from beginning a second term in office. Outside efforts to mediate peace have meet with no success, even when coming from parties sympathetic to the military government such as the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The government decries most pressure to negotiate as infringing on Myanmar's sovereignty, and generally describes most of the pro-democracy opposition as terrorists.
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