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May 18, 2021 The meeting scheduled today of the United Nations General Assembly has been postponed 'sine die' for a non-binding resolution that would have suspended any arms transfer to Burma with immediate effect. The authors of the text, according to diplomatic sources, "did not get the support they expected" to guarantee a large majority vote in the Assembly which includes 193 member countries.
The text comes from a Liechtenstein initiative supported by the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. A total of 48 countries from Europe, America and Africa, but only one representing Asia - South Korea - supported the draft resolution. They want "more time for negotiations, especially with Asean countries" (the association of Southeast Asian nations), another source told France Press news agency. Countries adhering to ASEAN are traditionally reluctant to abandon the principle of non-interference that has always characterized them.
The resolution urged the Burmese military authorities who took power in a coup d'etat on 1 February "to put an end to the state of emergency" and "to immediately cease all violence against peaceful demonstrators". In the text also the request to "immediately and unconditionally release" President Win Myint and civil leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as all arbitrarily detained detainees.