United Nations: After two years of isolation, the Myanmar government seems willing to engage in a dialogue with the international community, a senior United Nations official just back from three days of talks with the country's top officials said.
"They want to open up another chapter of relationship with the international community," United Nations Under Secretary General for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari told a press conference at the world body's headquarters in New York after returning from a three-day visit to Myanmar.
During the course of his trip, Gambari met a number of senior government officials, including General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, and opposition leader Dawn Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest for several years, as well as members of her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD).
Gambari, who was sent to Myanmar by the Secretary-General Kofi Annan as his special emissary, said on Wednesday that the purpose of his visit was to examine what more can be done to move Myanmar towards democracy, sustainable development and national reconciliation.
Noting that it was the first high-level contact between Government leaders in Myanmar and the UN in the past two years, the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs said he was hopeful about the outcome of his visit.
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