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Wednesday, 03 February 2021_Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialized countries have expressed deep concern about the recent military coup in Myanmar and the detention of the country’s top political leaders.
In a joint statement issued on Wednesday, the foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US as well as the high representative of the European Union (EU) for foreign policy slammed the coup, calling on the Southeast Asian country’s military to end the state of emergency.
“We are deeply concerned by the detention of political leaders and civil society activists, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, and targeting of the media,” they said in the statement.
“We call upon the military to immediately end the state of emergency, restore power to the democratically-elected government, to release all those unjustly detained and to respect human rights and the rule of law,” the statement added.
The G7 foreign ministers further called on Myanmar’s military to allow unrestricted humanitarian access to support the most vulnerable individuals.
They said the November 2020 election results must be respected, adding that the parliament should be convened at the earliest.
Myanmar’s military staged a coup and detained de facto leader Suu Kyi as well as some of her party members on Monday.
Following the coup, the military handed power to General Min Aung Hlaing and imposed a state of emergency for a year. It also pledged to hold fresh elections and hand power to the winning party.
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