‘Not appropriate,’ envoy tells Britain’s Boris Johnson over Kipling poem in Myanmar

October 01, 2017 2:27 AM

LONDON (REUTERS) – Britain’s ambassador to Myanmar was forced to interrupt Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier this year as he tried to recite a nostalgic colonial poem by Rudyard Kipling in public during a visit to the country’s most famous Buddhist site.

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