UN envoy meets junta leader in Burma

A United Nations envoy met Burma’s military leader today as the junta’s foreign minister defended a deadly crackdown on democracy protesters that provoked global revulsion.

Ibrahim Gambari, the UN’s special envoy to the country, also known as Myanmar, met Senior General Than Shwe in the junta’s remote new capital, Naypyitaw, said a foreign diplomat. No details of the meeting were available.