UN envoy cuts short Myanmar trip

Thu, 18 Oct 2001 | Source: REUTERS

MYANMAR: The United Nations' human rights envoy to Myanmar is cutting short a visit to the military-ruled country for health reasons, officials said on Wednesday.

They said Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the UN's special rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar, would return to his native Brazil. He arrived on Oct. 9 and had been due to stay until Saturday.

Pinheiro, making his second visit to the country, met senior government members before leaving for the Shan, Kachin and Mandalay areas of the country on Oct. 13.

The opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), which won elections in 1990 by a landslide but has never been allowed to govern, criticized Pinheiro for not doing enough on his current trip to investigate the human rights situation. --Reuters

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