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China's foreign minister to visit Nepal, Myanmar
AP - Friday, November 28
BEIJING - China said Thursday it supports international efforts to help military-ruled Myanmar achieve national reconciliation as it prepared to send its top diplomat to visit the Southeast Asian nation.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi would visit Nepal and Myanmar from Tuesday to Saturday. Qin did not give the exact dates of Yang's visits to each country, but said the minister planned to meet with his counterparts in both countries as well as their leaders.
China has large economic interests in Myanmar, an impoverished country whose ruling generals have been under international pressure to embrace national reconciliation following the violent suppression of massive, anti-government protests in Yangon last year.
China is Myanmar's most important ally, providing economic, military and other assistance while Western nations shun the military-ruled country because of its poor human rights record and failure to restore democracy. China objects to Western criticisms of Myanmar's junta, saying conditions in the Southeast Asian country have improved since its violent crackdown on peaceful protests last September.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed deep frustration at the failure of Myanmar's military junta to agree to efforts aimed at reforming itself.
"China, as a friendly neighbor of Myanmar, hopes to see that all parties in Myanmar will promote reconciliation through dialogue and greatly realize democracy, development and stability," Qin said during a regular news briefing. He said Beijing continued to support the efforts of the U.N. and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a regional bloc, to mediate.
Ban has been trying to encourage Myanmar to take real steps to include opponents led by Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who has been under house arrest since her party overwhelmingly won a general election in 1990 but was not allowed to take power by the military. The military has held authoritarian power in Myanmar since 1962.
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