Rev. Danny Fisher

The U.N. continues to let Burma down: the General Assembly yesterday rejected a request from the winners of Burma’s 1990 elections (all members of Nobel Peace laureate and Prime Minister-elect Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party) to replace representatives of the country’s current military junta at the U.N. Today, permanent members of the Security Council and most Asian nations held their first ministerial meeting “aimed at pushing for reforms” in Burma. With Russia and China, the two countries that have consistently vetoed efforts to honor the will of the Burmese people, at the table, what do you think the chances are that nothing substantive happens at these meetings?