ASEAN to be More Assertive with Myanmar
In a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in August, the organization gave the Myanmar junta a deadline to implement the Five-Point Consensus.
In this image released by Brunei ASEAN Summit, United States President Joe Biden speaks in the virtual meetingof ASEAN – East Asia Summit on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit with the leaders, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. Southeast Asian leaders began their annual summit without Myanmar on Tuesday amid a diplomatic standoff over the exclusion of the leader of the military-ruled nation from the group’s meetings.
NEW YORK, KOMPAS - The foreign ministers of ASEAN met in New York, United States, and agreed that there has been no significant progress in Myanmar’s military junta’s implementation of the Five-Point Consensus. Further action towards Myanmar is needed. Moreover, in addition to being more assertive with Myanmar, ASEAN also needs to cooperate with other countries so that they do not enact policies concerning Myanmar that are detrimental to ASEAN.
On the sidelines of the 77th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi met with her ASEAN counterparts, except for Myanmar, in a series of bilateral, trilateral and informal meetings.