{"id":30720,"date":"2021-04-08T19:41:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T10:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/08\/locked-out-myanmar-envoy-urges-uk-not-recognise-replacement"},"modified":"2021-04-08T19:41:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T10:41:04","slug":"locked-out-myanmar-envoy-urges-uk-not-to-recognise-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30720","title":{"rendered":"Locked-out Myanmar envoy urges UK not to recognise replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyaw Zwar Minn has been barred from London embassy by representatives of Myanmar junta<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s ambassador to the UK, who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/07\/myanmars-ambassador-to-uk-locked-out-of-embassy-reportedly-by-deputy\">locked out of his embassy<\/a> by representatives of his country\u2019s military, has urged the British government not to recognise the junta\u2019s envoy and to send the replacement and his allies back to Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>In a move that could have long-term diplomatic implications for UK-Myanmar relations, the ambassador said he was locked out of the embassy in London on Wednesday by his deputy at the behest of the Myanmar military, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/01\/aung-san-suu-kyi-and-other-figures-detained-in-myanmar-raids-says-ruling-party\">seized power<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/08\/locked-out-myanmar-envoy-urges-uk-not-recognise-replacement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyaw Zwar Minn has been barred from London embassy by representatives of Myanmar juntaMyanmar\u2019s ambassador to the UK, who has been locked out of his embassy by representatives of his country\u2019s military, has urged the British government not to recognise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[950,319,1879,215,82,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dominic-raab","category-foreign-policy","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-london","category-myanmar","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30721,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30720\/revisions\/30721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}