His messenger UN for Myanmar, Noeleen Heiser is making her first visit to the country today since military coup dated February 2021, the organization said.

The Secretary-General’s Special Envoy “will discuss the deteriorating situation and its pressing challenges,” the UN said without elaborating, while explaining that her visit followed “extensive consultations with representatives from across the political spectrum, civil society, as well as communities affected by pandemics. ongoing conflict.

According to her schedule, Heiser will hold meetings in Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital.

The visit of the Singaporean diplomat, scheduled for October 2021, will take place one day after the new conviction of former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has already been sentenced to 11 years in prison and received a new six-year sentence on Monday for corruption. A 77-year-old man remains in solitary confinement at Naypyidaw Prison.

“Even Superman can’t solve the problem”

Both the UN and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have appointed an envoy to seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis raging in Myanmar since the 2021 coup.

So far they have made very little progress. “I think that even Superman cannot solve the problem of Myanmar,” ASEAN Special Envoy Prak Sokonh said in frustration earlier this month.

At the end of July, the international community again condemned the junta in Myanmar after the execution of four people on death row, including two leaders of the democracy movement.

The UN Security Council, which includes Myanmar’s allies China and Russia, condemned the executions.

In its annual report released in early August, the UN Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar said there was growing evidence in the country that crimes against humanity were being committed in the country.

After the coup that toppled Suu Kyi, the military unleashed a bloody crackdown on dissidents, killing more than 2,100 civilians and arresting nearly 15,000, according to a local NGO.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP, Reuters.}