Langkawi, Malaysia—Southeast Asian foreign ministers told Myanmar's junta to prioritise a ceasefire in its civil war over fresh elections during a meeting
Langkawi, Malaysia—Southeast Asian foreign ministers told Myanmar’s junta to prioritise a ceasefire in its civil war over fresh elections during a meeting in Malaysia on Sunday.
“One thing that we know, they want to have an election. But we told them that election is not a priority at the moment,” Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan told reporters after the meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers on the Malaysian island of Langkawi.Malaysia is this year’s rotating chair of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations—long derided by critics as a toothless talking shop.
The junta has several times pushed back a timetable for polls as it struggles to crush widespread opposition to its rule from allied ethnic minority armed groups and pro-democracy “People’s Defense Forces.”
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