With Foreign Minister Nyan Win present, Ban said that he wanted to see the delivery of foreign aid and the deployment of aid workers carried out in a "more systematic way."U.N. official Dan Baker said that junta leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, would Friday meet Ban at Naypyitaw, the capital built by the military in a remote area of central Myanmar. Ban said earlier that Than Shwe had refused to take his telephone calls from New York and failed to respond to two letters.
Ban, a career diplomat who was South Korea's foreign minister before taking the U.N. post, is wading into a situation fraught with politics. Myanmar's top generals have always viewed relations with the world through a dark, political prism.
Trying to allay suspicions
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