Burma News (7.2.09)

by Danny Fisher

“UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (pictured) is to meet senior members of the party of Aung San Suu Kyi when he visits Myanmar this week but has no plans yet to see the opposition leader, a party spokesman said. Ban is set to arrive in the military-ruled nation on Friday for a two-day visit focused on pressing the junta to release all political prisoners including the jailed Nobel peace laureate.” Photo by Yuriko Nakao for the Agence France-Presse.
Here’s today’s news about Burma:

  • CNN, the Agence France-Presse, and Reuters all report on U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon’s upcoming and risky visit to Burma.
  • Veteran U.N. reporter Evelyn Leopold writes for The Huffington Post about the “political gamble” of Ban’s visit.
  • Bertil Lintner writes for the Wall Street Journal that the impending visit is a “mission to nowhere.”