YANGON, May 16 — Myanmar’s military chief has held talks with top Asean officials on the junta’s participation in the South-east Asian regional bloc, from which it has been...
This handout photo taken and released on January 10, 2024 by the Myanmar Military Information Team shows Myanmar ’s military chief Min Aung Hlaing meeting with Alounkeo Kittikhoun, special envoy of the Asean chair on Myanmar , in Naypyidaw.
Myanmar is still a member of Asean, but the generals have been excluded from top-level bloc meetings over their refusal to engage in a peace plan and with their opponents. They also “discussed the best cooperation of Myanmar in Asean, the conditions of Myanmar’s participation in Asean meetings” and the junta’s plan to hold fresh elections, the newspaper said.Indonesian, Malaysia and the Philippines have called for tougher action against the junta, while Thailand has held its own bilateral talks with the generals as well as detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
In January, the junta sent a senior bureaucrat to an Asean foreign ministers meet in Laos — the first time the country attended a high-level meeting of the bloc in more than two years.
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