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ASEAN will not give up on Myanmar peace despite no progress: Retno
Frustration has mounted among some members of the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations with Myanmar and how to handle its bloody political turmoil that has raised questions about the group's effectiveness and unity.
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President Joko “Jokowi“ Widodo (right) and Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi brief journalists at a press conference during the 42nd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Labuan Bajo on May 11, 2023.
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SEAN will not give up trying to end violence in fellow member Myanmar even though the ruling military there has made no progress on a peace plan it agreed with the bloc two years ago, Indonesia said on Thursday.
Frustration has mounted among some members of the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations with Myanmar and how to handle its bloody political turmoil that has raised questions about the group's effectiveness and unity.
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was forthright in his criticism, telling an ASEAN summit in Labuan Bajo that Myanmar's generals had made no progress on a five-point ASEAN peace plan.
He also said human rights violations in Myanmar could not be tolerated and violence there should be halted and its people protected.
Indonesia is ASEAN chair this year and Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told the summit that principles of democracy and the rule of law were enshrined in the ASEAN charter.
"A lack of progress not does mean that we should give up," Retno said at the closing of the summit
Myanmar has been in violent turmoil since the army overthrew a government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021.
