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ASEAN will not give up on Myanmar peace despite no progress: Indonesian foreign minister

“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.

The coup triggered widespread protests that the military crushed. The army has since been fighting ethnic minority insurgents seeking self-determination and allied pro-democracy fighters.

ASEAN last month condemned the Myanmar military over one of its latest and most deadly air strikes that killed at least 100 people. The junta says it is fighting “terrorists”.

As ASEAN chair, Indonesia has been talking to all sides in recent months in an attempt to get talks going but the criticism from Indonesia on Thursday underscored the absence of any results.

“I must speak candidly. On implementation of the 5PC, there has not been significant progress,” Jokowi, as the Indonesian president is known, said earlier, referring to what ASEAN calls its “five-point consensus”, or “5PC” for Myanmar.

Myanmar’s top general agreed to the plan, which calls for an end to violence, humanitarian access and dialogue among all parties, in April 2021 at a meeting in Jakarta but the military has largely ignored it.

Source: CNA

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