Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was put under house arrest by the military junta.
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi prepares a speech in September 1989 in Burma. (Photo: AFP)
1992
Chairperson of Human Rights Commission Yozo Yokota, visited Myanmar but was refused permission to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Chairperson of Human Rights Commission Yozo Yokota (Photo: ACEID)
1993
U.S. Congressman Bill Richardson visited Myanmar but was not allowed to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
US ambassador to United Nations and US envoy to Zaire, Bill Richardson, shows a letter given to him by Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko and addressed to US President Bill Clinton, after their meeting (Photo: ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP)
1994
U.S. Congressman Bill Richardson, Phillip Sheehan of the New York Times, and UNDP Resident Representative Jehan Raheem were allowed to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest.
Aung San Suu Kyi reading in her yard in 1995
Burmese democratic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (top C) speaks to supporters 17 July, 1995 a few days after the military junta ended her six years of house arrest, in Yangon. (Photo: MANUEL CENETA / AFP)
2000 - 2002
During this period, Special Envoy of the U.N. Secretary General, Razali Ismail visited Myanmar at least six times, while U.N. Human Rights Special Rapporteur Paulo Sergio Pinheiro visited at least three times. Neither were allowed to meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
U.N. Secretary General Razali Ismail United Nations special envoy to Myanmar, Razali Ismail (C), speaks to journalists upon his arrival at KL International Airport in Sepang, 10 June 2003, after meeting with Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Razali earlier said Aung San Suu Kyi was uninjured in violent clashes and he was still trying to secure her release from "protective custody". (Photo: JIMIN LAI / AFP)
2000
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and placed under house arrest.
Unidentified Myanmar officials carry food bags through the gate of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house in this recently released undated photo. The Myanmar junta declared 06 September 2000 that Aung San Suu Kyi and other detained opposition leaders are being take care of by doctors, in the first confirmation of their well-being. (Photo: MYANMAR GOVERNMENT/HO / AFP)
2002
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest.
Aung San Suu Kyi is mobbed by supporters as she arrives at the headquarters of her National League for Democracy after being freed from 19 months of house arrest in Yangon on May 6, 2002 (Photo: REUTERS)
2003
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and sent to Insein prison just after the Depayin massacre on May 30.
Supporters of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi hang her portrait along a main road on the resort island of Bali October 7, 2003. Dozens of demonstrators held a rally denouncing the government of Myanmar's Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt who is currently attending the ASEAN summit in Bali. (Photo: REUTERS/Erik de Castro)
2003
Special Envoy of the U.N. Secretary General Razali Ismail visited Myanmar and was permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
U.N. Secretary General Razali Ismail (Photo: AFP)
2006
May and November 2006
U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Ibrahim Gambari visited Myanmar but was not permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on either visit.
Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win (R) receives Ibrahim Gambari, the highest-ranking UN official for political affairs, at Yangon international airport, 18 May 2006. Gambari was expected to meet with senior government officials, members of civil society, and the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD). At left is an unidentified UN official. (Photo: AFP)
2006
Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar visited Myanmar, but he was not permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Myanmar's prime minister General Soe Win (L) receives Malaysian foreign minister Syed Hamid Albar (R) at the Zeyathiri Building in Yangon, 24 March 2006. A special ASEAN envoy abruptly cut short a trip to Myanmar aimed at pressing the junta over democratic reforms without meeting detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, security sources and diplomats said. (Photo: AFP)
2007
October and November 2007
Special advisor to U.N. Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari visited Myanmar but was not permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on either visit.
United Nations official Ibrahim Gambari (L) poses with Myanmar's Senior General Than Shwe (2L), Vice-Senior General Maung Aye (3L) General Thura Shwe Mann (2R) and Acting Prime Minister Lieutenant General Thein Sein (R) after a meeting in Myammar's administrative capital Naypyidaw, 02 October 2007. UN special envoy Gambari met with Myanmar's top general Than Shwe and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, wrapping up a mission aimed at halting a bloody crackdown on anti-government protests. (Photo: AFP)
2008
March 6-11, 2008
Special advisor to U.N. Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari visited Myanmar and was permitted two meetings with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Aung San Suu Kyi (L), leader of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party, meets with visiting U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari at the State Guesthouse in Yangon in this March 10, 2008 (Photo: REUTERS)
2009
U.N. Human Rights Special Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana visited Myanmar but was not permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
U.N. Human Rights Special Rapporteur Tomas Ojea Quintana (Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP)
2009
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited Myanmar but was not permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (Photo: UN)
2009
U.S. Senator Jim Webb visited Myanmar and was permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
U.S. Senator Jim Webb meets with with Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in this August 15, 2009. (Photo: REUTERS)
2009
U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro visited Myanmar and was permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Paulo Sergio Pinheiro (Photo: UN)
2021
Brunei’s Foreign Minister Dato Erywan Yusof (ASEAN special envoy to Myanmar) and ASEAN’s Secretary General Lim Jock Hoi visited Myanmar but were not permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Chairman of the State Administration Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing is posing for a documentary photo at the reception event with the Foreign Minister of Brunei Darussalam and ASEAN Secretary-General yesterday. (Photo: The Global New Light of Myanmar)
2021
August 21-28, 2021
China’s Special Envoy for Asian Affairs Sun Guoxiang visited Myanmar but was not permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
United Wa State Army leader Bao Youxiang (L) and China's Foreign Ministry's special envoy for Asian Affairs Sun Guoxiang (Photo: AFP)
2021
ASEAN’s special envoy arranged a trip to Myanmar, but it was canceled after he was refused a meeting with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Brunei's Second Minister for Foreign Affairs Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 23, 2023. (Photo: Leonardo Munoz / AFP)
2021
November 12-15, 2021
Chairman of the Nippon Foundation Yohei Sasakawa visited Myanmar but was not permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Chairman of the Nippon Foundation Yohei Sasakawa (Photo: Nippon Foundation)
2022
January 7-8, 2022
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn visited Myanmar but were not permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn (Photo: Javier Lizon/ AFP)
2022
March 21-23, 2022
ASEAN Special Envoy to Myanmar Prak Sokhonn visited Myanmar but was not permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
ASEAN Special Envoy to Myanmar Prak Sokhonn and SAC chairman Min Aung Hlaing on March 21, 2022. (Photo: Military True News Information Team)
2022
June 29-30, 2022
ASEAN Special Envoy to Myanmar Prak Sokhonn visited Myanmar but was not permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Cambodia's Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) special envoy to Myanmar, speaks during a press conference at Phnom Penh international airport on March 23, 2022. (Photo: TANG CHHIN Sothy / AFP)
2022
August 17-18, 2022
U.N. Special Envoy to Myanmar Noleen Hazel visited Myanmar but was not permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
U.N. Special Envoy to Myanmar Noleen Hazel (Photo: UN)
2023
April 23-24, 2023
Former U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited Myanmar but was not permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Myanmar junta leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing [right] presents a gift to Ban Ki-moon, former UN Secretary-General, during their meeting Monday, April 24, 2023, in Naypyidaw. (Photo: Military True News Information Team)
2023
Thailand’s Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai visited Myanmar and was permitted to meet with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
This combination of file pictures created on July 12, 2023 shows (L) Thailand's Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai during a press conference at the 52nd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Bangkok on August 1, 2019, and (R) Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the National League for Democracy (NLD) party's Central Committee meeting in Yangon on June 20, 2015. Thailand's Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai met with ousted Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week, he told reporters July 12, 2023, her first known meeting with a foreign envoy since she was detained following a 2021 coup. (Photo: Lillian SUWANRUMPHA and Ye Aung THU / AFP)
