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Myanmar Has an Envoy at the United Nations. Why Is He Not Speaking?

U Kyaw Moe Tun has kept a low profile at the General Assembly for years, part of an arrangement to keep his post despite the military-backed government’s efforts to remove him.

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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Michael Froman, Council on Foreign Relations president, at the UN General Assembly.

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