The Director-General of the EU Military Staff, Vice-Admiral Hervé Bléjean, spoke by telephone on Tuesday 9 March with Vice-Senior General Soe Win, Deputy Commander in Chief of the Myanmar military, to discuss the current situation in the country. It was the first contact with the Myanmar military since the coup that brought it to power on 1 February.
The aim of the call was to be able to discuss military to military as the Myanmar military does not appear to listen to civilian calls for...