New York, June 19 (DPA) United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi, to mark the 65th birthday Saturday of the Myanmar pro-democracy leader.
Ban said he was ‘deeply concerned’ that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate remains under house arrest.
‘I have been persistently, consistently demanding that all the political prisoners including Aung San Suu Kyi should be released without condition as soon as possible, so that they would be able to participate in the political process,’ Ban said in New York.
Suu Kyi spent her birthday at the residence in Yangon, to which she has been confined by Myanmar’s military junta for 14 of the last 20 years. She worked for the UN Secretariat in New York from 1969-1971.
