July 8, 2026 | Burma Independent Voice
Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun, has urgently requested that the UN Security Council immediately adopt a new resolution to effectively halt the flow of weapons, ammunition, aviation fuel, dual-use goods, and related technologies to the military junta. He further appealed to the international community to swiftly implement the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) framework to save countless civilian lives.
The Ambassador issued this strong appeal during the UN General Assembly Plenary Meeting on the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P),” held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on July 6.
Ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun pointed out that ground realities demonstrate that existing diplomatic mechanisms—such as the ASEAN Five-Point Consensus and UN Security Council Resolution 2669—have proven entirely inadequate to resolve the Myanmar crisis, even after more than five years since the military coup.
Furthermore, he highlighted that during a mere 70-day window between April 20 and June 30, the military junta dramatically escalated its atrocities against civilians, launching 1,147 airstrikes and committing 20 massacres.
Ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun strictly cautioned that any nation maintaining reckless engagements with the military council is indirectly complicit in the international crimes being perpetrated by the regime. He warned that the people of Myanmar will permanently remember such actions with deep bitterness throughout history.
He asserted that when a state fails to protect its own population, the international community must not turn a blind eye. He concluded by emphasizing that the time has come for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to act decisively on the prosecutor’s application to arrest junta leader Min Aung Hlaing for grave crimes committed against the civilian populace.
