Asean Ministers Push Stalled Peace Plan in Myanmar Talks
ASEAN urged Myanmar to show measurable steps on its 2021 peace plan, including a halt to hostilities and talks with all sides.
- On Sunday, Southeast Asian foreign ministers met in Bangkok with Foreign Minister Tin Maung Swe, pressing for "concrete" progress on the stalled peace plan aimed at ending Myanmar's civil war.
- Myanmar has been diplomatically sidelined within ASEAN since the military ousted the government of Aung San Suu Kyi five years ago, triggering a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people.
- Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow supported "calibrated engagement" with Myanmar to implement the "five-point consensus" plan, which calls for an immediate halt to hostilities and dialogue between all parties.
- Myanmar lawmakers last week blasted the peace plan, calling for it to be "reviewed and reconsidered" in the state-run Global New Light, arguing it "undermines Myanmar's equality within ASEAN."
- Philippines Foreign Secretary Theresa Lazaro urged "concrete actions towards the cessation of hostilities" and, as the ASEAN special envoy, plans to visit Myanmar this year to expand humanitarian assistance access.
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Analysis-ASEAN outreach may give Myanmar leaders legitimacy without results
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AlKhaleej TodayAsean calls for ‘concrete’ progress from Myanmar on stalled peace plan
BANGKOK, July 13 — Southeast Asian foreign ministers pressed their Myanmar counterpart for “concrete” progress on a stagnant Asean peace plan for the country during a meeting in Bangkok yesterday, top Thai and Philippine diplomats said.The meeting between foreign ministers of several members of the 11-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Tin Maung Swe was the first such gathering since a 2021 milit…
(Hanoi=Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Jin-hyung = ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) member states... Myanmar, led by President Min Aung Hlaing, a former head of the military junta...
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