Foreign Secretary response to Myanmar Ambassador calling for release of Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint

Press release

Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, is responding to the statement released on 8 March by Myanmar’s Ambassador to the UK Kyaw Zwar Minn in which he called for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said:

I commend the courage and patriotism of Myanmar Ambassador Kyaw Zwar Minn in calling for Aung Sung Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint to be released and for the results of the 2020 election to be respected.

The military regime must end their brutal crackdown, and restore democracy.

Published 8 March 2021