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YANGON, Myanmar — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon ended a mission to Myanmar on Saturday saying he was “deeply disappointed” that the isolated nation’s top military ruler denied him a visit to jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
In two days of rare talks with Senior Gen. Than Shwe, the U.N. chief urged the reclusive 76-year-old autocrat to release Suu Kyi and other political prisoners and embark on democratic reforms ahead of elections scheduled for next year.
But their meetings Friday and Saturday in Naypyidaw, the junta’s remote administrative capital, left Ban saying that his diplomatic gambit had amounted to “a setback to the international community’s efforts to provide a helping hand to Myanmar.”
