{"id":840,"date":"2021-02-02T20:02:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T12:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=840"},"modified":"2021-02-04T21:56:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T13:56:29","slug":"un-security-council-to-discuss-situation-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/02\/02\/un-security-council-to-discuss-situation-in-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Security Council to discuss situation in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ANKARA (BERNAMA): UN Security Council will meet on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Myanmar after the military seized power in the country, according to Anadolu Agency, citing a schedule shared Monday by the international body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, Myanmar&#8217;s military declared a state of emergency hours after detaining de facto leader and State Counsellor Suu Kyi, and other senior members of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coup took place hours before the first session of the country&#8217;s new parliament was set to convene following November&#8217;s elections in which the NLD made sweeping gains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-gy+w-3p-eo+15i\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3592292982565315\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"3006179351\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>The military claimed the coup was staged due to &#8220;election fraud&#8221; in the polls that it said resulted in the dominance of the NLD in parliament.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It added that UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric had on Monday called the coup &#8220;a serious blow to the democratic reforms.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There are about 600,000 Rohingyans those that remain in Rakhine State, including 120,000 people who are effectively confined to camps,&#8221; Dujarric told reporters in a virtual meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They cannot move freely and have extremely limited access to basic health and education services.&#8221;&#8211; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA (BERNAMA): UN Security Council will meet on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Myanmar after the military seized power in the country, according to Anadolu Agency, citing a schedule shared Monday by the international body. On Sunday, Myanmar&#8217;s military declared a state of emergency hours after detaining de facto leader and State Counsellor Suu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[48,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news","8":"tag-coup","9":"tag-rohingyans"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}