NEW YORK: At a high-level conference held at the UN General Assembly in New York, world leaders and top UN officials warned on Tuesday that the plight of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar has reached a critical tipping point.
With Myanmar’s military pushing forward with elections scheduled for December 2025 amid widespread violence, disenfranchisement and systemic persecution, the UN declared the process illegitimate and destabilizing.
Julie Bishop, the UN secretary-general’s special envoy on Myanmar, cautioned that the elections under current conditions “will increase resistance, protest and violence, and further undermine the fragile state of the country.”
She said more than four and a half years after the 2021 military coup, there is still “no agreed ceasefire, no agreed pathway to peace, no agreed political solution.”
Bishop, who recently completed her third mission to Myanmar, reported ongoing polarization, deepening military control and growing international complacency.
