The meeting of foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations comes as doubts mount over the credibility and unity of the bloc in dealing with the region's thorniest challenges.
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Southeast Asia’s top diplomats will gather in Indonesia on Tuesday, July 11, amid pressure to address a bloody political crisis in Myanmar and resolve tensions in the South China Sea where some ASEAN members have overlapping territorial claims with China.
More than 3,400 people have been killed and almost 22,000 arrested in the military’s crackdown on dissent, according to a United Nations report published in June. But two sources familiar with the efforts say attempts to create an inclusive dialogue have been complicated by conditions put forward by all sides to start even informal talks.
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