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ASEAN urge Myanmar junta to implement agreed peace plan
Indonesia is the chair of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for 2023 and will host the bloc's annual leaders' meetings later this year.
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The foreign ministers of the ASEAN member states (except Myanmar) and Timor-Leste, as well as the bloc’s secretary-general pose for a group photo during the 32nd ASEAN Coordinating Council meeting in Jakarta on February 3, 2023. They are (from left) Malaysia’s Zambry Abdul Kadir, Brunei’s Erywan Pehin Yusof, Singapore’s Vivian Balakrishnan, Thailand's Don Pramudwinai, Vietnam’s Bui Thanh Son, Indonesia’s Retno Marsudi, Laos’ Saleumxay Kommasith, Philippines’ Enrique Austria Manalo, Cambodia’s Prak Sokhonn and Timor-Leste’s Adaljiza Magno, and ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo)
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outheast Asian ministers at the end of two-day talks in Jakarta on Saturday urged Myanmar's junta to implement a five-point peace plan agreed two years ago to create a path towards ending the country's political crisis.
Indonesia is the chair of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for 2023 and will host the bloc's annual leaders' meetings later this year.
But the ministerial meeting in Jakarta has been overshadowed by the situation in Myanmar, which has been in turmoil since the army seized power in February 2021.
Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said Jakarta proposed an implementation plan to ASEAN members for the "five-point consensus" agreed with the junta in April 2021 that called for an end to violence and dialogue between the military and rebels.
"Broad support was received from all member states to this plan," she told reporters at the end of talks, without providing details of when and how they hoped the agreement would be implemented.
"This plan is very important for ASEAN, in particular the chair, as a guidance to address the situation in Myanmar in a united manner. It shows a strong unity of ASEAN members to implement the 5PC."
The junta remains an ASEAN member but the bloc barred it from top-level summits over its failure to implement the plan that aims to achieve peace between the military and Myanmar's anti-coup movement.
