Myanmar still faces deep challenges: UN Secretary-General

Myanmar continue to face similar challenges have been too long, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement released here.

"The country's human rights, political, social, economic and humanitarian issues are serious, deep-rooted, long-term," Ban said, this is the United Nations would like to see Myanmar successfully address these challenges.

Earlier Wednesday, Ban Ki-moon held on Myanmar, as the new capital of Naypyidaw the Government set up the first meeting of the Friends Group.

The Meeting noted that an important development recently held against the backdrop.

According to the Secretary-General, "should allow all citizens to participate in the construction, in order to make their countries of Myanmar's future."

Able to ensure broad support for any reform is to "release all political prisoners, and to reach as widely as possible through dialogue and to all those who have contributed to - including the Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and political forces inside and outside Parliament," Ban Ki-moon said.

He also mentioned the international community's common responsibility to the people of Myanmar. "Enable the current process will result in a successful transition requires us to closely follow the events, but also admitted that efforts to maximize the opportunity for meaningful change," Ban said.

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