According to the latest foreign media reports, Hamadoun Toure, chief executive of the United Nations Telecommunications Bureau, said on Friday that no government has the right to deprive citizens of their right to access the Internet. Hamadoun Toure leads the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). He emphasized that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently described safe internet access as a basic human right. Hamadoun Toure, in response to a journalist's question about the recent turmoil in Myanmar that temporarily interrupted internet services, said "Yes, I believe that no government has the right to deprive its citizens of their right to access the internet."