Myanmar ruling party leader Aung San Suu Kyi is not going to attend the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly. His spokesman said this Wednesday.
According to the AFP report, Suu Kyi canceled the plan to participate in the United Nations General Assembly session in the worldwide criticism of the Rohingya crisis.
On Tuesday, the UN General Assembly's UN General Assembly's 72nd session was inaugurated in New York on Tuesday. The session will continue till 25 September. On 19 September the general debate will begin.
Suu Kyi spokesman J. Hath said today that Suu Kyi of Myanmar will not attend the United Nations General Assembly session
What is the reason why Suu Kyi does not attend the General Assembly session, did not give any explanation. However, he said that instead of Suu Kyi, Vice President Henry Van Theo will take part in this session on behalf of Myanmar.
Suu Kyi took part in the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly in September last year after the National League for Democracy (NLD) came to power. In the session, Suu Kyi received the welcome speech.
This time the session of the United Nations General Assembly began, when the country's security forces and hardliner Buddhists in Myanmar's Rakhine state were carrying violent suppression against minority Rohingya.
The United Nations Security Council is due to discuss the Rohingya crisis today.
UN officials say the number of Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh in the face of ongoing violence in Rakhine has crossed 3,70,000.
In the current session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva due to the Rakhine situation, there has been a lot of criticism in Myanmar. On the opening day of the 36th session of the Human Rights Council, UN Human Rights High Commissioner Jed Rad al-Hussein said on Monday, what is happening in Rakhine is a "good example of ethnic cleansing".
Responding to Jed Rad al Hussein's remarks, Myanmar said that they never ratify the genocide.
Myanmar condemned the denial of racial discrimination and condemned jayed remarks.
Suu Kyi, the Nobel Laureate of Peace, is being criticized for its failure to stop the oppression of Rohingya Many Nobel laureates in peace, Suu Kyi criticized. Suu Kyi was expected to face criticism in the United Nations General Assembly session. But now he is not going to attend this session.
Rakhine police outposts and check-ins have been attacked on the night of 25 August last night. Then there began a new violent military operation.
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