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Six months since the coup, UN remains committed to Myanmar’s citizens: top aid official

Six months since the coup, UN remains committed to Myanmar’s citizens: top aid official

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Six months since the military coup in Myanmar, the UN and partners are doing their utmost to help protect the country’s people and show solidarity with their plight, amid mass displacement linked to deadly clashes with Government forces and the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. 

That’s the message from the organisation’s top acting humanitarian coordinator in the country, Ramanathan Balakrishnan, who’s been speaking to UN News’s Daniel Johnson. 

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