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Myanmar's neighbors, ASEAN members hold secretive talks on crisis

Government and think-tank representatives from Myanmar and its neighbors, including India and China, had held talks in New Delhi on Tuesday as part of a secretive effort to deescalate a bloody crisis in the army-run Southeast Asian nation, two sources said.

Devjyot Ghoshal (Reuters) (The Jakarta Post)

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Thu, April 27, 2023 Published on Apr. 26, 2023 Published on 2023-04-26T21:43:06+07:00

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overnment and think-tank representatives from Myanmar and its neighbors, including India and China, had held talks in New Delhi on Tuesday as part of a secretive effort to deescalate a bloody crisis in the army-run Southeast Asian nation, two sources said.

Myanmar was plunged into conflict and economic chaos in 2021 after its powerful military overthrew the elected civilian government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, triggering an armed resistance it has sought to violently crush.

The talks this week were the second in a “Track 1.5" dialogue that started in Thailand last month and came as frustration grows within the ASEAN bloc at the military's failure to implement a peace plan it agreed to in April 2021.

The sources, who asked not to be named and declined to identify the representatives because the process was confidential, said Myanmar, India, China, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos were present at Tuesday's meeting, as was Indonesia, the current ASEAN chair.