Asean divided over Myanmar as group postpones year's first meeting

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Unresolved differences about engagement with Myanmar's military rulers are causing discord among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), diplomats and government officials say, as a ministers' meeting set for this week was pushed back. The friction follows a tumultuous final few months of 2021 after Asean took the unprecedented step of sidelining Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing from...

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"It must be admitted that time is still needed to unite views," Jailani, the ministry's director-general for Asian, Pacific and African affairs, told reporters. In recent days, Malaysia's foreign minister, Saifuddin Abdullah, and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have opposed the idea of inviting back the junta, as it had made no progress on an agreed five-point Asean "consensus" on resolving the Myanmar crisis.On Friday , Lee told Asean chair and Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen that any change in its Myanmar policy "had to be based on new facts".

Min Aung Hlaing, who was excluded from the Asean leaders' meeting, later thanked Hun Sen for "standing with Myanmar".

 

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