Julie Bishop appointed UN special envoy on Myanmar

Julie Bishop appointed UN special envoy on Myanmar

'Ms. Bishop brings extensive political, legal, management and senior leadership experience to the role,' says UN

By Diyar Guldogan

WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN on Friday announced the appointment of former Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ personal envoy on Myanmar.

"Ms. Bishop succeeds Noeleen Heyzer of Singapore to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for her dedicated service. Ms. Bishop brings extensive political, legal, management and senior leadership experience to the role," a UN statement said.

Bishop served as Australian foreign minister in 2013-2018.

On Thursday, UN official Khaled Khiari announced that Guterres intended to appoint a special envoy to engage with Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states and all stakeholders to advance toward a Myanmar-led political solution to the country’s crisis.

In 2017, Myanmar’s military launched violent operations against the Rohingya population in northern Rakhine State which rights groups have since called a genocide. Nearly 1.2 million Rohingya were forced into neighboring Bangladesh, where they have been living for years in overcrowded refugee camps.

Since a coup in in 2021 that ousted Myanmar’s democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s military carried out a brutal nationwide crackdown on millions of people opposed to its rule.


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