Australia Myanmar Institute urges special envoy to Myanmar

(Read original statement by clicking here)

Today (6 February) marks exactly one year since Sean’s arrest. Yesterday, the Australia Myanmar Institute (AMI) released a statement urging the Australian government to send a special envoy to Myanmar to negotiate for Sean’s release. The statement gives specific recommendations for what the envoy should do and how it should fit in with the wider geopolitics of Myanmar at the present moment.

The AMI recommends that “this envoy should work with the support of all agencies and organisations concerned with Sean’s welfare and any Myanmar person or group with influence. These negotiations and actions should also include contact with ASEAN and its leaders, as well as other countries and international organisations that have raised Sean’s circumstances with the Myanmar military and called for his release.”

(Click here to read the original statement on AMI’s website.)