Aung San Suu Kyi meets Red Cross official, military-backed government says, after proof of life campaign
Southeast Asian Foreign Ministers held an informal meeting with Myanmar Foreign Minister U Tin Maung Swe in Bangkok on July 12, their first face-to-face engagement with a representative of the military-backed government since the coup.
A photograph released by the military-backed government and purporting to show the meeting showed Suu Kyi, 81, in traditional Burmese dress, smiling and shaking hands with the official, who the government named as the ICRC’s resident representative to Myanmar, in a sparse room with a wooden floor and walls.
Crisis Group’s senior Asia adviser Richard Horsey said the military-backed government would have “deliberately chosen” an ICRC representative as Suu Kyi’s first public meeting so Naypyidaw could address “concerns over her status and health without opening the door to diplomatic access.
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