Arakan News Agency
The United Nations denied on Friday, on a media report that brother of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, practice mining activities in Myanmar at the moment.
As the international organization confirmed that it is closely following the humanitarian situation in the state, “Arakan” western of Myanmar.
The official spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations Mr. Stéphane Dujarric : “We remain concerned about the humanitarian situation in Arakan State (Muslim majority west of Myanmar).”
He said at a news conference at UN headquarters in New York, “We recognize the occurrence of recent improvement in humanitarian access to the population in the state and we are monitoring the situation closely.”
He denied the press reports about mining activities of the brother of the Secretary-General in the vicinity of the northern border with China, the state of Shin.
He added, “The brother of the Secretary-General of the United Nations no longer exercise any mining activities in the state of Shin”
Media reported recently about the possibility of a conflict of interest that may affect the attitudes Ban Ki-moon about what happens to the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, especially in light of the presence of the work between his brother and the Government of Myanmar in the field of mining relationships.
He also said to media that other business company of South Korea (birthplace of Ban Ki-moon) run by members of the latter’s family enjoys trade relations with Myanmar. Which spokesman for the Secretary General of the International Organization strongly denied.
