| By LALIT K JHA / UNITED NATIONS | Wednesday, October 8, 2008 |
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has cast doubt on a tentatively scheduled trip to Burma in December, saying so far he sees no tangible progress in achieving UN-mandated goals.
The secretary-general, in a press conference at UN headquarters in New York, said he would visit Burma only when he sees the possibility of achieving progress toward the goals the UN has set and is certain his visit would yield tangible results.
Ban said he does not see those conditions right now, and he is unlikely to visit Burma under the present circumstances.
"As to my visit, when I said I will be personally engaged, that meant that I would be willing to pay a return visit to Myanmar at an appropriate time,” he said. “But you should also know that without any tangible or very favorable results to be achieved, I may not be in a position to visit Myanmar without any expectations."
Ban, who has organized several meetings during the General Assembly session of the UN including ministerial-level meeting of the Friends of the Secretary General on Burma, said he is studying the possibility of a visit.
"I am now in the process of making some groundwork, which may allow me to consider my own visit. But at this time, I need some more time. I will have to consider all the circumstances—when would be an appropriate time for me to visit," he said.
Such a statement by the secretary-general could be considered a major setback for the military junta, since a visit by Ban would enhance their credibility. It was during the last visit of Ibrahim Gambari, the special UN envoy on Burma, that it was announced that Ban would make a second trip to Burma in December.
Ban’s first visit was in May in the aftermath of cyclone Nargis when he visited the Irrawaddy delta. His talks with top Burmese officials were restricted to humanitarian relief efforts.
The secretary-general, however, said he is committed to ensure that things move in a positive direction in Burma.
"On this [Burma], you have my firm commitment and assurances that I will be constantly and personally engaged—at my level and through my special adviser Mr Gambari's engagement with the Myanmar authorities," Ban said.
Gambari last visited Burma in August, which many considered a failed mission. He failed to meet with either Sen-Gen Than Shwe or opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
"I have convened for the first time this high-level meeting where many countries were represented at the ministerial, foreign ministers, level. It was very encouraging," Ban said, referring to the ministerial-level meeting of 14 Friends of the Secretary-General on Burma.
"There was firm support for the continuing good offices role of the secretary-general, and also Gambari's engagement there. That will continue," Ban said.
"There was again strong commitment from the Group of Friends of the Secretary-General that they will provide whatever necessary assistance and cooperation to enable that," he said.
The secretary-general said there was strong support from UN member nations that it is up to the Burmese government to implement fully the democratization process and also release all political prisoners.
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| ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္း။ စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၄၊ ၂၀၀၈။ |
မေတြ႕ရဘူးဆိုရင္ေတာ့ သူ႔ရဲ႕ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံခရီးစဥ္
ကို ပယ္ဖ်က္ေကာင္း ပယ္ဖ်က္မယ့္အေၾကာင္း
ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္း
(Ban Ki-moon) က အဂၤါေန႔မွာ ေျပာလိုက္ပါ
တယ္။ လာမယ့္ဒီဇင္ဘာလမွာ သူ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို
သြားေရာက္မယ္ဆိုၿပီး အရင္ထြက္ေပၚေနခဲ့တဲ့
သတင္းေတြနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ အဂၤါေန႔က ကုလ
သမဂၢဌာနခ်ဳပ္မွာ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ သတင္းစာ
ရွင္းလင္းပြဲအတြင္း သတင္းေထာက္ေတြက
ေမးျမန္းတဲ့အေပၚ မစၥတာဘန္ကီမြန္းက တုံ႔ျပန္
ေျဖၾကားခဲ့တာပါ။
ႏိုင္ငံေရးကိစၥရပ္ေတြကို ေျပာဆုိေဆြးေႏြးဖို႔ လာမယ့္ဒီဇင္ဘာလမွာ သြားဖို႔ရွိတယ္လို႔
ဘန္ကီမြန္းရဲ႕ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ အထူးအႀကံေပးပုဂၢိဳလ္ အီဘရာဟင္မ္ ဂမ္ဘာရီ
(Ibrahim Gambari) ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ၾသဂုတ္လ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ရွိခ်ိန္အတြင္း ေျပာခဲ့ပါ
တယ္။
မစၥတာဘန္က သူ႔အေနနဲ႔ေရာ၊ သူ႔ရဲ႕အထူးအႀကံေပးပုဂၢိဳလ္ မစၥတာဂမ္ဘာရီအေနနဲ႔ေရာ
ျမန္မာ့အေရးမွာ အဆက္မျပတ္ ကိုယ္တိုင္ကိုယ္က် ထိေတြ႕လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားမယ္ဆုိတာ
ကို အခုိင္အမာ ထပ္ေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ မစၥတာဘန္ကီမြန္းက …
"ဒီမုိကေရစီေရး ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြကို ျမန္မာအစိုးရက အျပည့္အ၀ အေကာင္
အထည္ ေဖာ္သင့္ပါတယ္။ ဒါ့အျပင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အပါအ၀င္ ႏုိင္ငံေရး
အက်ဥ္းသားေတြကိုလည္း လႊတ္ေပးသင့္ပါတယ္။"
သူ႔ရဲ႕ခရီးစဥ္ဟာ ကုလသမဂၢက ေတာင္းဆိုထားသလို ျမန္မာအစိုးရက ဒီမုိကေရစီေရး
ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြ လုပ္သလား၊ အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရး လုပ္ေဆာင္
သလား၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြ လႊတ္ေပးသလားဆိုတာေတြေပၚမွာ မူတည္ေန
တယ္လို႔ မစၥတာဘန္က ေျပာပါတယ္။
"သင့္ေတာ္တဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကို က်ေနာ္ျပန္သြားခ်င္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္
အေကာင္အထည္ျပႏုိင္တဲ့ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ အင္မတန္ အားတက္ဖြယ္ေကာင္းတဲ့ တိုးတက္မႈ
ေတြ မရဘူးဆိုရင္ေတာ့ က်ေနာ္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကို သြားမွာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။"
"ဒီတႀကိမ္မွာ က်ေနာ့္အတြက္ အခ်ိန္ ပိုလိုအပ္ပါတယ္။ သြားေရာက္ဖို႔ အသင့္ေတာ္ဆံုး
အခ်ိန္က ဘယ္အခ်ိန္ျဖစ္မယ္ဆိုတာကို သတ္မွတ္ဖို႔အတြက္ အေျခအေနအားလံုးကို
က်ေနာ္ ထည့္သြင္းစဥ္းစားရမွာပါ။"
ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြ ရွိ-မရွိ၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အပါအ၀င္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြ
လြတ္-မလြတ္ ဆိုတာေတြအေပၚ မူတည္ေနတယ္လို႔ ျမန္မာအစိုးရအေပၚ သြယ္၀ိုက္ၿပီး
ဖိအားေပးတဲ့သေဘာ ေျပာသြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။
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