Asean foreign ministers reiterated their commitment to peace and stability in the region and they are ready to help Myanmar return to normalcy in a positive, peaceful, and…
Punitive action may have been chosen to sow fear of arbitrary death, which may be the military’s last resort to exert control as it loses ground in Myanmar.
There are already very high expectations, both from within Myanmar and from the international community, toward the Indonesian chairmanship.
Nevertheless, he said that Cambodia, as the chair of Asean, will continue to work to find a solution acceptable to all parties.
Asean has barred the Myanmar junta from joining its meetings due to its lack of progress in implementing the peace plan its generals agreed to last year.
The coming AMM will be the first time the meeting will be held in person since 2019.
Last week, the junta executed four activists in its first use of death penalty in over three decades, and has killed more than 2,100 civilians since the coup.
In a rare consensus on the post-coup crisis, the Security Council released a statement condemning the executions and calling for the immediate release of ousted leader Aung San…
The writer says Asean foreign ministers should take bolder measures to ensure the junta will not act as a “thorn in the flesh” of the regional bloc.
The implementation of the executions come just a week before the 55th Asean Ministerial Meeting, scheduled to be hosted by Cambodia.