President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has agreed with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen that being patient is “the way forward” in dealing with the worsening political crisis in Myanmar. | BPinlacINQ
Marcos also pointed out the need to resolve the Myanmar crisis by examining its political dynamics while engaging the country “in every way possible,” according to the statement.Myanmar spiraled into a civil war following a 2021 military coup d’etat. Data from a local monitoring group claimed that at least 2,100 have already died due to military’s brutal crackdown on dissent in the Southeast Asian nation.
In a bid to defuse the crisis, a peace plan — calling for an end to violence and a boost in dialogues between the military and the opposition – was agreed upon by Myanmar and Asean in April 2021. But Myanmar has since warned that “inserting additional pressure by setting a timeframe will create more negative implications than positive ones.”Aside from the Myanmar crisis, the OPS said Marcos and the Cambodian prime minister also “discussed at length” the ripple effect of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Marcos, who is attending his first Asean summit as the country’s chief executive, likewise had a bilateral meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Minh Chinh, where they talked about
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