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UN warns Myanmar over path to democratic transition

25 February 2015 22:16 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. UN says Myanmar "seems headed in the wrong direction" and "urgently needs to get back on track" for the country’s democratic transition, APA reports quoting TASS

The UN has urged the government of Myanmar to stick to its promises for the country’s democratic transition and long-term reconciliation, warning that it "seems headed in the wrong direction" and urgently needs to "get back on track."

The comments by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein in a statement Wednesday four years after Myanmar’s reformist government took over from the military junta, promising democratic transition and a peace deal with 17 ethnic rebel groups that have been fighting for greater autonomy.

Zeid said: "The international community has seen the transition in Myanmar as a story of promise and hope.

"But recent developments relating to the human rights of minorities, the freedom of expression and the right to peaceful protest are calling into question the direction of that reform, and even threatening to set it back."