FILE photo - Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop holds a joint press conference with European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Sydney, on Aug. 8, 2018. - Photo: AP
BANGKOK: Activist groups are calling for the United Nations to investigate its special envoy to Myanmar over possible conflicts of interest, after a report detailed her consulting company's alleged ties to Chinese mining and construction companies with interests in the country.
Justice for Myanmar wrote to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres following a report in Australia's The Saturday Paper outlining what it said were Julie Bishop's links to Chinese state-owned companies that operate in Myanmar.
