ASEAN leaders held the meeting in Jakarta on Saturday with the junta leader, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, also in attendance. A chairman's statement that laid out a "five-point consensus" including sending a special envoy to Myanmar was issued afterward.

The junta said in a statement carried in Tuesday's edition of the English-language Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper that at the meeting, leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations exchanged views on the current situation, with some suggestions made then being highlighted in the chairman's statement.

"In response to some of the suggestions made by ASEAN Leaders, Myanmar informed the Meeting that it will give careful consideration to constructive suggestions made by ASEAN Leaders when the situation returns to stability in the country since priorities at the moment were to maintain law and order and to restore community peace and tranquility," the junta said.

Since the military ousted an elected government led by leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup on Feb. 1, the country has seen a wave of anti-coup protests, with security forces using deadly force to quell them.

The State Administration Council statement was dated Monday.

The five-point consensus reached among ASEAN leaders also included a special envoy's visit to Myanmar to meet with "all parties concerned," and provision of humanitarian assistance, according to the chairman's statement.

But the consensus did not include a call for the release of Suu Kyi and other politicians detained following the coup. The statement said, "We also heard calls for the release of all political prisoners including foreigners."

At the summit, the general is said to have been open to receiving a special envoy and humanitarian assistance.

Despite the pledge, one man was shot dead by Myanmar security forces in the country's second-biggest city of Mandalay on Monday, local news reports said, quoted by Reuters.

It was the first such reported killing since Southeast Asian countries reached a consensus at the weekend with Myanmar's ruling junta to end violence.

Mizzima and Khit Thit Media said some other people had been wounded in the shooting in Mandalay. Mizzima said a woman on a motorcycle had also been shot dead in the southern town of Dawei.

Also, heavy fighting erupted at a Myanmar army outpost near the eastern border with Thailand early on Tuesday in an area largely controlled by forces of a Karen ethnic army.

The Karen National Union (KNU) said it had captured the army position, in some of the most intense clashes since a Feb. 1 coup plunged Myanmar into crisis. The fighting also came days after Southeast Asian leaders said they had reached consensus with the junta on ending violence.

Villagers across the Salween river in Thailand said heavy gunfire started before sunrise. Video posted on social media showed flames and smoke on the forested hillside.

Forces of the Karen National Union had taken the outpost at around 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. (2230 to 2330 GMT), the group's head of foreign affairs, Padoh Saw Taw Nee, told Reuters.

He said the camp had been occupied and burned down and that the group was still checking on deaths and casualties. The spokesman said there had been fighting in other locations too, but did not give details.

The Karen Information Center, a local media group, said the army base had been overrun. It said villagers had seen seven soldiers running away.

Myanmar's army made no immediate comment. It historically proclaimed itself the one institution that can keep the multi-ethnic country of over 53 million people together, though much of Myanmar has rallied in opposition to its coup.

The army base at the Thai border had been largely surrounded by KNU forces and food had run short there in recent weeks, according to Thai villagers who had had contact with the soldiers.

A Thai official from the Mae Hong Son province said one person had been wounded in Thailand during the fighting, but did not have further details.

KNU forces had clashed elsewhere with the army since it seized power and cut short a decade of democratic reforms that had also brought relative peace in Myanmar's volatile borderlands.

Karen groups say 24,000 people have been displaced in recent weeks by the violence, including air strikes by Myanmar’s air force, and are sheltering in the jungle.

Some of Myanmar's two dozen armed groups have supported opponents of the junta, whose forces have killed more than 750 civilians to try to suppress protests against the coup, according to an activist group.

Elsewhere in Myanmar, there have been relatively few reports of bloodshed since the weekend meeting between junta leader Min Aung Hlaing and Southeast Asian leaders to try to find a way out of the crisis.

Protesters have vowed to step up action against the junta.

On Monday, they called on people to stop paying electricity bills and agricultural loans and to keep their children away from school.

"Education staff and students are strongly encouraged to join the boycott and stand together by not attending school," protest leader Ei Thin Zar Maung posted on social media.

Activists have criticized the so-called five-point consensus that came out of the meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at the weekend, saying that it helped to legitimize the junta and fell far short of their demands.

In particular it did not specifically call for the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, 75, and other political prisoners. The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners advocacy group says more than 3,400 people have been detained for opposing the coup.

Suu Kyi's party won a second term in November. The election commission said the vote was fair but the military said fraud at the polls had forced it to seize power.

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