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ASEAN leaders condemn Myanmar convoy attack
ASEAN heads of state on Wednesday condemned the Sunday attack against a convoy of Indonesian and Singaporean diplomats traveling to help with humanitarian assistance in Myanmar, urging for the implementation of peace initiative the Five-Point Consensus (5PC).
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Workers make final preparations on March 27 at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center in Badung, Bali, ahead of the ASEAN Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting (AFMGM). (Antara/Nyoman Hendra Wibowo)
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o:p>ASEAN heads of state on Wednesday released a statement to condemn an attack on Sunday against a convoy of Indonesian and Singaporean diplomats traveling to help with humanitarian assistance in Myanmar, expressing a “deep concern” with the ongoing violence and urging for the implementation of peace initiative the Five-Point Consensus (5PC).
The statement came as pressure continued to mount for the 10-nation bloc to prove it has stripes to deal with the unabating emergency in Naypyidaw by possibly moving beyond ASEAN’s 5PC, with many now expressing their pessimism in the association.
It also came after Monday’s statements from President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and the Singaporean foreign ministry condemning the attack, with the former strongly asserting the need to stop the use of violence and for the opening of a “path for dialogue toward a common solution”.
“We supported the statement of the Indonesian President as the chair of ASEAN on 8 May in response to the attack on a convoy of the AHA Center [ASEAN Coordinating Center for Humanitarian Assistance] and the ASEAN Monitoring Team in Myanmar,” the leaders’ statement said.
“We condemned the attack and underlined that the perpetrators must be held accountable.”
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Since assuming the chairmanship position in January, Indonesia had donned a quiet diplomacy strategy of engaging with many Myanmar stakeholders and occasionally giving ambiguous updates while maintaining that some progress had been made, the latest from last week being on the front of humanitarian assistance.
