Weeks after it seized power and launched a crackdown on dissent in Myanmar, the junta agreed to a five-point peace plan with ASEAN, but has failed to implement it.
"Myanmar is deeply concerning, we see it in the economy, instability, insecurity, deaths," Wong told journalists at a press conference. / Photo: Reuters
Penny Wong made the comments at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations foreign ministers meeting on Saturday, where the crisis in ASEAN member Myanmar has divided the bloc.Weeks after it seized power and launched a crackdown on dissent the junta agreed to a five-point peace plan with ASEAN but has failed to implement it.
"The message I want to send to the military regime is 'this is not sustainable for you and your people'."It had previously refused to send"non-political representatives" but two senior bureaucrats are representing the country at the talks in Vientiane. In recent weeks ethnic minority armed groups have renewed an offensive against the military in northern Shan state, seizing territory along a vital highway to China.
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