The Foreign Affairs Minister of Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG) Zin Mar Aung discussed possible action against Myanmar’s military regime in a series of meetings with the permanent representatives of the United Kingdom, Canada and Lithuania to the United Nations (UN) in New York.

During the meeting with Dame Barbara Woodward, the UK Permanent Representative to the UN, on 25 September, Zin Mar Aung expressed her appreciation for the leading role of the UK in adopting United Nations Security Resolution 2669, and discussed imposing an arms embargo on the supply of arms and military equipment to the Myanmar military.

Zin Mar Aung also talked with Bob Rae, the Canadian Permanent Representative to the UN, about putting external pressure on the Myanmar military.

She led the Myanmar delegation, including Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Moe Zaw Oo, and Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the UN Kyaw Moe Tun, in a meeting with the Foreign Minister of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis on 22 September. She talked about the important role of fledgling democracies in regional stability.

At the office of Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, they also held a meeting with senior members of The Elders led by its Chair Mary Robinson, former first woman President of Ireland, former Mongolia president and prime minister Mr Elbegdor Tsakhia, and former president of Columbia Juan Manuel Santos, to discuss the Myanmar crisis