VIENTIANE — Myanmar will send a representative to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit this week for the first time in three years, a diplomatic source told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Tuesday, as the country's military government struggles to quell a civil war.
VIENTIANE — Myanmar will send a representative to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit this week for the first time in three years, a diplomatic source told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday, as the country's military government struggles to quell a civil war.The conflict will be high on the agenda as leaders from the regional bloc meet in Laos from Wednesday, though more than three years of efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis have had no impact.
Soldiers sit next to an armored vehicle outside a hotel during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Laos’ capital Vientiane on Oct. 8, 2024. AFP PHOTOBut Myanmar — one of the bloc's 10 members — has sent a senior Foreign Ministry official as its representative to the three-day meeting in Laos' capital Vientiane, a Southeast Asian diplomat involved in the meetings told AFP.
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