United Nations Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari ended his five-day visit to Myanmar Monday afternoon after meeting some government officials and a wide range of representatives of Myanmar society including Aung San Suu Kyi for two times.
During his trip in Yangon in a renewed effort for the country's national reconciliation and democratic process, Gambari, who is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special adviser on Myanmar, had talks with government's spoke authoritative team led by Brigadier-General Kyaw Hsan who is Information Minister, and met Myanmar Foreign Minister U Nyan Win and Supreme Court Chief Justice U AungToe who heads a 45-member commission for holding nationwide constitutional referendum.
Other Myanmar government officials whom Gambari also met included Minister of National Planning and Economic Development U Soe Tha and Minister of Health Dr. Kyaw Myint.
The government's spoke authoritative team told Gambari that the completed constitution draft could never be amended and the government is committed to its ongoing seven-step roadmap to democracy, while the Commission for Holding Nationwide Referendum said that the polling would be conducted in line with the international systems, adding that the referendum would be held within a day.
The commission rejected both the presence of foreign observers in the upcoming referendum and the offer of UN technical assistance to the event when asked.
Besides meeting twice with Aung San Suu Kyi, detained general secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) during his trip, Gambari also met other senior leaders of the NLD, National Unity Party, Pa-O National Organization and Union Solidarity and Development Association as well as UN country team, diplomatic corps and representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Gambari's mission was the fifth since he was appointed to the post in early 2006 and the first after the ruling military government announced on Feb. 9 a timetable on holding a nationwide referendum in May this year in a bid to adopt the completed constitution draft and then sponsoring a multi-party democracy general election in 2010 to transform the military administration into democratic administration in accordance with the government's seven-step roadmap to democracy.
Source: Xinhua
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