The news has been confusing and frustrating for Burma’s people regarding the UN. Firstly, the junta expelled the top United Nations resident Diplomat Charles Petrie for highlighting the country’s economic crisis. Then when he returned to Burma, Myanmar’s junta rejected Gambari’s bid for three-way talks with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during his visit, understandably UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon was worried.

“I’m concerned at this time about the lack of progress. He (Gambari) has not been able to meet with Senior General Than Shwe,” Ban told reporters at the United Nations.

Ban said he had instructed Gambari to seek to carry out his mandate to launch a dialogue between Suu Kyi and the generals, including Than Shwe, and to have Myanmar free all detained monks, students and demonstrators and “take necessary democratic measures”.

The United Nations has said Gambari will stay in Myanmar as long as necessary to accomplish his mission, but his work has been complicated by the generals’ move to kick out the top U.N. resident diplomat. Than Shwe refused to see him but he was allowed to meet with some NLD members, as well as other hand picked organisations that the regime trusted and who will not reveal the truth about them or Burma.

Before returning to Burma, Gambari visited ASEAN leaders to discuss Burma’s issues for a few weeks. We hoped or assumed that at least there would be some positive news or progress of some sort on the way.

On 8th November in Jakarta Indonesian Presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal confirmed that ASEAN countries will not impose sanctions against Myanmar. “There is no tradition of sanction in ASEAN. So far, there has been almost no applying of sanction on ASEAN member countries. For this matter (Myanmar issue), ASEAN will not impose sanction,” he said at the press conference. The spokesman said that it was expected that all member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including Myanmar, will sign a charter of ASEAN that would bind all it members.

Gambari’s visit was part of a six-nation consultation tour of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, China and Japan to find a peaceful solution to the Myanmar situation.

Gambari had spent a few weeks meeting the ASEAN leaders and yet this was the disappointing result.

In response to the above, the international community has been very supportive. The following quotes are from the ordinary citizens of the world who expressed their sympathy, disappointment and anger:-

“This is one outrage Burma people will never forget. The leaders had decided to please each other, even with a mass murderer, rather than to end the suffering, torture and murders of the Burmese, not once, but twice. The common people tried so hard within their rules to make them see the light, but the leaders’ hearts are made of stone, with only dollar signs as irises in their eyes. Leaders come and go, but unfortunately, it will be the common people of China and gang who will have to bear the hatred of 50 million Burmese and their next generations. Sigh…there is no justice. Asian mankind deserve to lose it all…” (Quote from an Asian)

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“Cheap talk in Darfur has been proved to be futile.
It happens in Darfur and it happens in Burma.
The UN is now run by dictatorial gangs backed by communist dictators and terrorists!
Dissolve the UN and create a Democratic Union. This is to only way to protect human rights and human dignity”.

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“The UN should be dissolved and replaced by a World Democratic Union. Only democratic countries satisfying a certain level of human rights protection are allowed to join. This is the only way to promote democracy and to protect human rights. It has a little bit of power which is subject to the authorization of the UN Security Council. However, when we see dictatorial countries such as China and even Libya becoming Security Council Members, we should start to realize that the UN are selling the human rights and the UN is nothing more than a puppet of dictator gangs and terrorists.

The UN is just another international organization like the WTO which has not much power and is subject to the manipulation of some well-being of common people all over the world for the so-called “international security and peace.”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uhWgZu6tcZU
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1B1Yc4GyHxg

Be careful of the hidden agenda of the person speaking at the UN. Other than that the videos have shown the real evil of the UN”.

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The above quotations were examples of the sentiments of some of the world community, but to be fair to the UN, let us look at it from Gambari’s side.

He has done an excellent job indeed. He is persistent and courageous, and he has to persuade and placate world leaders to take the necessary sensible action for the good of all. He also has to meet “difficult” leaders who only care about their own agenda and their own gain, and worse of all the Myanmar junta, who made his job much more difficult by playing all kinds of psychological games, putting him in a tight spot and placing obstacles along his way. Than Shwe kept changing his plans at every whim, as bellicose and as belligerent as ever, unwilling to give way one little bit whenever somebody or something displeases him.

I would like to say he did his job as well as he could considering the very difficult circumstances he was in. Gambari has the diplomatic skills and an amiable demeanour, but all parties of Burma except one are prepared to work with him. He is making progress, albeit at a snail’s pace, but the view of many people is that he and the UN need to be producing results more quickly. Perhaps a slow result is better than no result at all.

REF:

ASEAN not to impose sanction on Myanmar

http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/08/content_7034790.htm