Myanmar rejects UN resolution urging arms embargo


Rooting for you: Men with flowers in their hair in support of Myanmar’s detained leader Suu Kyi, posing next to a cake with a frosting imprint of her face to mark her birthday. — Reuters.

The Foreign Ministry rejected a UN General Assembly resolution calling for an arms embargo against the South-East Asian nation and condemning the military’s February seizure of power.

Myanmar described the resolution, which passed on Friday and is not legally binding, as being “based on one-sided sweeping allegations and false assumptions.”

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