UN-Burma meeting 'a failure'

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has admitted his special envoy’s meeting with Burma’s military leaders about their violent crackdown on democracy activists did not achieve anything.

Mr Ban said, “You cannot ... call it a success.” But he added: “I was relatively relieved that he was first of all able to meet with leaders of the Burma government as well as Madame Aung San Suu Kyi,” the opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate who is under house arrest.