Aung Suu Kyi kicks off Burma peace talks with plea for unity on concrete conference progress

Naypyitaw (dpa) – Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi called for progress as she opened a landmark peace conference with ethnic rebel groups on Wednesday, in a bid to end one of the world’s longest-running civil wars. “Today we start a journey that should have begun decades ago,” she told nearly 1,700 delegates from the government, the…

Ban Ki-moon meets with Aung San Suu Kyi

United Nations Secretary-General Mr Ban Ki-Moon during his working visit to Myanmar paid a courtesy call on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the State Counsellor and the Minister for Foreign Affairs yesterday evening at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The following is the full text of their joint statement. ‘I am pleased to be here with…