Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A United Nations special envoy will visit Burma this weekend to meet the recently released pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s military junta leaders, a fellow co-founder of her National League for Democracy and diplomats said today.

Suu Kyi and other senior members of the NLD will tomorrow at 3 p.m. meet Vijay Nambiar, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s chief of staff and special envoy to Burma, NLD co-founder Win Tin told Mizzima.

Ban told reporters last month in New York that the Burmese regime had blocked his envoy Nambiar from visiting Burma since he was appointed interim replacement for Nigerian diplomat Dr. Ibrahim Gambari in January this year.

Suu Kyi and colleagues will raise the NLD’s concerns about the continuing situation in Burma, including “the human rights of ethnic nationalities”, he said. He added that he would request that “Mr. Nambiar meets leaders of ethnic nationalities so that he can understand their situation”.

In an interview with Mizzima last month, Win Tin expressed extreme disappointment that Ban’s 2010 report to the UN General Assembly on Burma’s human rights situation failed to seriously address violations against ethnic minorities.

Despite the fact Ban’s report was supposed to cover the situation of human rights in Burma from August last year to August this year it failed to detail any of the Burmese regime’s military offensives in ethnic minority areas during that time. In particular, there was no mention of the infamous attack last year in August and September on Shan State’s Kokang region that forced 37,000 refugees to flee to China.

Win Tin told Mizzima he was disturbed that Ban had neglected to cover abuses against ethnic people because “in Burma many of the worst and most frequent human rights violations committed by the army are against ethnic people”.