World must ensure Myanmar coup fails - UN chief
UN Secretary General António Guterres has urged the environment community to make sure Monday's coup in Myanmar fails.
The reversal of elections is "unacceptable", he said, and coup leaders must be made to understand why is no chance to rule the country.
The UN Reliability Council is discussing a possible statement, but China is likely to block any sort of words which condemns the coup.
Elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi was detained when the army seized power.
Police in Myanmar - also known as Burma - later on filed several expenses against Ms Suu Kyi, who features been remanded in custody until 15 February.
Neither Ms Suu Kyi nor deposed President Gain Myint have already been heard from since the takeover.
The coup, led by armed forces chief Min Aung Hlaing, has seen the installation of an 11-member junta.
The military, which includes declared a year-much time state of emergency, sought to justify its action by alleging fraud in previous November's elections, which Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won decisively.
There were reports that the military has ordered Facebook to be blocked, on the lands that the social media platform was "disturbing the restoration of stability".
On Thursday users explained they were not able to get access to it. A Facebook web page create to co-ordinate opposition to the coup has had tens of thousands of likes.
'Absolutely unacceptable'
The UN secretary basic needed constitutional order to be re-established in Myanmar. He said he hoped there will be unity in the Security Council on the matter.
"We'll perform everything we can to mobilise all the major actors of the foreign community to put more than enough pressure on Myanmar to make sure that this coup fails," he said.
"It's completely unacceptable to reverse the result of the elections and the will of the persons.
"I hope that it will likely be possible to make the military found in Myanmar recognize that this is not the best way to rule the country which is not the way to move forward."
Western countries have condemned the coup unreservedly, but efforts at the Security Council to reach a prevalent position failed as China dissented. China is among five everlasting members with a right of veto in the council.
Beijing has long played a job of protecting the united states from international scrutiny, and has warned since the coup that sanctions or perhaps international pressure is only going to make things worse.
Alongside Russia, it has repeatedly protected Myanmar from criticism at the UN over the military crackdown on the Muslim minority Rohingya populace.
Suu Kyi's whereabouts unclear
It has been reported that Myanmar's civilian head Aung San Suu Kyi has been held at her home in the administrative centre, Nay Pyi Taw.
She faces charges which include breaching import and export laws, and possession of unlawful communication devices.
The accusations are within a police file - called an initial Initial Report - submitted to a court.
She was remanded in custody "to question witnesses, request evidence and seek lawyer after questioning the defendant", the document says.
President Get Myint is accused, beneath the National Disaster Control Law, of conference supporters in a 220-vehicle motorcade through the election campaign in breach of Covid limitations.
