Participants at the meeting with about 20 UN agencies, including the World Bank and the Asia Development Bank, said they were pleasantly surprised at the warm reception they were given on May 11 by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who is well known for being critical of international agencies in the past.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, in her capacity as foreign minister, spent most of the one-hour meeting listening to the views of the assembled agency heads. “It was not a lecture,” one participant said. “We were expecting a list of dos and don’ts but there was hardly a single don’t,” he said.
However on the controversial topic of Rakhine State, where hundreds of thousands of mostly stateless Muslims are facing desperate living conditions and restrictions under enforced segregation from the Buddhist majority, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was said to have urged caution. (Courtesy of Myanmar Times)
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