Members of the Shwebo Township Strike Committee, a local resistance group in Sagaing Region, held an online meeting with Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, the committee said.
Questions and answers were exchanged, and the committee said he can voice more loudly to the international community the concerns of people who want justice and freedom. The committee did not say what the Ambassador told them, and Mizzima has not had comment from him.
The committee said it will continue community-based revolutionary activities until military dictatorship ends and a genuine federal democratic union emerges.
The meeting comes as the UN Credentials Committee is due to review credentials for the General Assembly’s 81st session in late November or early December.
The committee has deferred any decision on Myanmar’s seat for five years, allowing Kyaw Moe Tun to stay in post.
The junta has nominated Aung Thurein, a former military colonel, to replace him. Supporters in Myanmar and abroad have campaigned for him to keep the seat, including a rally outside the UN in New York on 19 September.
Kyaw Moe Tun has used UN meetings to present evidence of alleged military war crimes, including his statements to the Third Committee in October.
Mizzima