UN envoy set to return to Burma
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UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari will return to Burma in early November after the date of his visit is moved forward.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for Myanmar&#39;s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi to be released from house arrest.
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The United Nations expert on human rights in Myanmar vowed on Wednesday he would not be constrained by the military junta when he visits the country next month to report on the recent crisis.
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Burma announced Thursday that it would release more than 5,000 prisoners, and a senior official said a top dissident who was democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s closest aide would also be freed before long.
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The United Nations reacted  cautiously on Monday to Myanmar's announcement of a  constitutional referendum and elections, saying the political  process there needs to include a range of parties.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has praised the release of several political prisoners in Myanmar, the BBC reported Saturday. Annan also said he hoped others still behind
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The U.N. Security Council expressed concern Thursday at Myanmar's slow progress in opening a dialogue with the opposition and called for the early return of U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari to help promote national reconciliation.
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A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says he is heading off to Asia and Europe this weekend for wide-ranging talks.
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UN inspectors are expected Thursday to visit the reactor at the centre of North Korea&#39;s nuclear programme in their first on-site inspection in nearly five years, the head of the team said.
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UN secretary-general Kofi Annan led international demands for the swift release of Burma&#39;s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose house arrest has been extended for another year by the military regime.
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Is there still time to avert further bloodshed in Burma? A former ambassador to the country discusses the protests, the role of the monks and what the international community should do now.
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Burma is to send a senior diplomat to North Korea in its first official visit in over two decades, reports say.
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A United Nations envoy visited Indian leaders on Tuesday, hoping to rouse the world's largest democracy from its relative silence over the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests by the military government in neighboring Myanmar.
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The United Nations reacted cautiously on Monday to Myanmar's announcement of a constitutional referendum and elections, saying the political process there needs to include a range of parties.
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A UN envoy to Sudan will visit Darfur tomorrow to check on the government&#39;s claim that some 70,000 people displaced by conflict there have voluntarily returned to their homes, a spokesman said.
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BURMA&#39;S military junta is going ahead with its promised mass release of prisoners and a top dissident who was democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s closest aide will be among them, a senior official said today.
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Bowing to international pressure, Myanmar's rulers on Tuesday agreed to bring forward to early November a return visit by UN mediator Ibrahim Gambari a day after clearing the first visit by the UN's top human rights official in four years.