UN Security Council holds closed-door meeting on Myanmar with two special envoys

The U.N. Security Council convened a closed-door meeting to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday.

Julie Bishop, the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar, and Othman Hashim, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 2025 Chair Malaysia’s Special Envoy, briefed the Security Council on Dec. 22. No details about what was discussed were shared with the media.

The U.K., which is the penholder on Myanmar at the U.N. Security Council, along with South Korea, requested the Security Council meeting. James Kariuki, the U.N. ambassador to the U.K., issued a warning on Dec. 22 that the regime’s 2025-26 elections could worsen violence and complicate long-term solutions to bring peace and stability to Myanmar, which erupted into a nationwide civil war following the uprising to the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021.