SACKED BURMESE DIPLOMAT AT UN VOWS TO FIGHT ON

NEW YORK: Myanmar’s United Nations envoy has vowed to fight after the junta fired him for urging countries to use “any means necessary” to reverse a February 1 coup that ousted the nation’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

“I decided to fight back as long as I can,” Kyaw Moe Tun told Reuters on Saturday after Myanmar state television announced he had been fired for betraying the country.

However, the United Nations does not officially recognise the junta as Myanmar’s new government as it has received no official notification of any change, said a UN official, speaking on condition of anonymity, and so Kyaw Moe Tun remains Myanmar’s UN ambassador, for now.

“We have not received any communication concerning changes to the representation of Myanmar at the United Nations in New York,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres’ special envoy on Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, warned UNGA that no country should recognise or legitimise the junta.