GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold a special session on Friday to discuss the crisis in Myanmar after its elected civilian government was taken over by the military, the United Nations said in a statement on Monday.
Britain and the European Union requested the meeting earlier on Monday, backed by 19 members of the 47-member forum, mainly Western countries joined by Japan and South Korea, it said.
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