Myanmar leader-in-exile calls for emergency UN talks
Published : Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:08
By : Agencies
PARIS (Thomson Financial) - The head of Myanmar's self-proclaimed government-in-exile has urged France, as chair of the UN Security Council, to call emergency UN talks on the uprising against the country's ruling junta.
'What we expect from France, is for it to help us get out of this situation,' Sein Win, the prime minister of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), told French news channel LCI.
The first cousin of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, Sein Win said he hoped French President Nicolas Sarkozy would join him in calling for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
He said he was due to meet with Sarkozy in Paris on Wednesday following his return from the UN General Assembly.
Sein Win was among those who won parliamentary seats in 1990 elections in Myanmar in which Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won by a landslide but which the military junta refused to recognise.
The NCGUB government in exile has also been outlawed by the military junta.
More than 100,000 people, led by Buddhist monks, have defied warnings from the ruling junta to march through the streets of Yangon for an eighth consecutive day of peaceful protest against the military authorities.
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