He keeps going and going...

Reuters Photo above: U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari shakes hands with General Aung Kyi (R), named the junta's go-between with Suu Kyi, in Yangon November 6, 2007. Gambari met senior junta officials in Myanmar on Tuesday during a mission to spark reform that has failed so far to gain him an audience with the country's top leader, Senior General Than Shwe. (UNIC Yangon/Handout/Reuters)

So, U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari has been going in and out of Burma meeting with different officials, go-betweens and the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for many years now. Has anything changed? No. Is anything going to change? I hope, but if anything changes it's not going to be because of Gambari. It is useless that the U.N. keeps sending him there. Although Garmari is gathering quite a large photo album of himself with officials he visits in Burma. Always with a smile. There isn't anything to smile about in Burma until its regime is gone. What I don't understand is that there is rarely any information released about what is said in his meetings. Here are a couple of excerpts from an article I read regarding his latest visit...

YANGON (Reuters) -

---The official declined to give any details of the meeting with Aung Kyi, a significant figure in the military government who met Suu Kyi for 75 minutes last week.

There has been no sign of any willingness by the junta to deviate from its own "seven-step path to democracy" which, so far, has resulted only in the outlines of a constitution that would enshrine military power.

---"No U.N. officials accompanied Mr. Gambari so we are completely in the dark," a Yangon-based U.N. official told Reuters on Sunday. But the U.N. statement on Saturday said he expected to meet "as many interlocutors as possible" and would "stay in Myanmar as long as necessary to accomplish his mission." However, a spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD), the main opposition party, said he had not been contacted by Myanmar Foreign Ministry officials who set Gambari's schedule and did not know whether NLD leaders could meet him.

I wonder what Gambari's mission is? This is not the first time I have read that Gambari would stay in Burma until his mission is complete.