Asean foreign ministers called for regional unity in addressing an intensifying conflict in Myanmar, amid doubts over the bloc’s capability to implement a two-year-old peace process that has yet to get off the ground. | Reuters
All members emphasized unity on the issue, she said, adding, that “without cessation of violence, there would never be a conducive environment needed for the start of dialogue and the delivery of aid”.
On Wednesday, Don revealed he had met with ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been in detention since shortly after the 2021 coup and is currently appealing sentences of 33 years in jail.The Thai foreign ministry said in a separate statement the two had a “private one-hour meeting”. Rizal Sukma, an international relations expert at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta, said it was crucial that Asean stick with its plan.
Wednesday’s retreat is also expected to discuss the protracted talks on an Asean-China code of conduct on the South China Sea, which started in 2017, 15 years after the idea was hatched.
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