29-01-2024, 08:36 PM
Asean foreign ministers back 'Myanmar-owned & led' solution to crisis. Asean foreign ministers back 'Myanmar-owned and led' solution to crisis.
VIENTIANE (Reuters): South-East Asian foreign ministers on Monday pressed for an end to Myanmar's bloody conflict and expressed unity in their backing for a regional peace plan and a "Myanmar-owned and led solution" to the crisis. In a statement after an Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) retreat, the ministers gave support for efforts by the new special envoy on the crisis, from Laos, in "reaching out to parties concerned" and expressed confidence in his resolve to help the Myanmar people.
Myanmar junta to sends senior official to attend Asean foreign ministers’ meeting. LUANG PRABANG – Myanmar’s military junta, barred from sending political appointees to high-level Asean meetings since the 2021 coup, on Jan 29 sent a senior official to take part in the Asean Foreign Ministers’ Retreat in Laos.
Ms Marlar Than Htaik, permanent secretary of the Foreign Ministry under the control of the junta, represented Myanmar alongside Asean foreign ministers as the retreat began on Monday morning in Luang Prabang. Myanmar’s seat had been left empty at Asean leaders’ and foreign ministers’ meetings after the coup.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asi...rs-meeting
VIENTIANE (Reuters): South-East Asian foreign ministers on Monday pressed for an end to Myanmar's bloody conflict and expressed unity in their backing for a regional peace plan and a "Myanmar-owned and led solution" to the crisis. In a statement after an Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) retreat, the ministers gave support for efforts by the new special envoy on the crisis, from Laos, in "reaching out to parties concerned" and expressed confidence in his resolve to help the Myanmar people.
Myanmar junta to sends senior official to attend Asean foreign ministers’ meeting. LUANG PRABANG – Myanmar’s military junta, barred from sending political appointees to high-level Asean meetings since the 2021 coup, on Jan 29 sent a senior official to take part in the Asean Foreign Ministers’ Retreat in Laos.
Ms Marlar Than Htaik, permanent secretary of the Foreign Ministry under the control of the junta, represented Myanmar alongside Asean foreign ministers as the retreat began on Monday morning in Luang Prabang. Myanmar’s seat had been left empty at Asean leaders’ and foreign ministers’ meetings after the coup.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asi...rs-meeting