Christine Schraner Burgener, UN special envoy for Burma, had initial contact with the military.
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She “clearly expressed our position”: to put an end to the coup and release those detained, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told reporters on Friday.
But the Security Council did not formally condemn the putsch in its joint declaration, Chinese and Russians opposing such a position.
China remains Burma’s main support at the United Nations, where it thwarted any initiative against the military during the Rohingya Muslim crisis.
An online meeting was also held Friday between the Burmese authorities and several foreign diplomats and embassies, according to the state-held Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
“The government understands the concerns of the international community on the continuation of the democratic transition process” of the country, said Minister of International Cooperation Ko Ko Hlaing at the meeting, according to the newspaper.
The European Union and the United States have been posing the threat of sanctions since the early hours of the coup.
Writers, monks, students, activists, deputies, local officials: the army has increased the number of arrests.
Win Htein, close to Aung San Suu Kyi, who spent more than twenty years in junta detention from 1989 to 2010, was arrested on Friday.