YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - U.N. envoy Ibrahim Gambari arrived in Myanmar on Saturday for his second effort to reconcile the ruling military and its pro-democracy opponents. But he will also have to deal with the junta’s plan to expel the top U.N. diplomat in the country.

Gambari flew directly to the new capital, Naypyitaw, to meet with senior junta leaders, Myanmar government officials said, requesting anonymity since they were not authorized to speak to the media.

It was not known which of the junta leaders would meet with him in Naypyitaw, 250 miles north of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, or whether he would later be allowed to visit detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.

On the eve of his arrival, the junta accused Myanmar’s U.N. Resident Coordinator Charles Petrie of going beyond his duties by criticizing the regime’s failure to meet the economic and humanitarian needs of its people, and by saying this was the cause of September’s mass pro-democracy protests, which were violently put down by the government.

Gambari was earlier dispatched to Myanmar after the government crackdown, meeting with junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe and twice with Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace laureate.

Eyewitnesses in Yangon said security forces had been reinforced in some parts of the city prior to the visit, while residents said access to the Internet was virtually impossible for the third-straight day.

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UN Envoy Returns to Myanmar

This one is going to be short and sweet, conditions of anonymity and no ‘net access, the officials of Myanmar can now tell their story any way they want to…

And the day the USA loses it’s ‘net access, we will have met the enemy, and he will be in Washington, D.C.

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