VIENTIANE: Indonesia's foreign minister on Thursday (Jul 25) slammed the Myanmar junta's unwillingness to engage with a regional peace plan to resolve the crisis sparked by its 2021 coup
Indonesia 's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi attends the 57th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Foreign Ministers' plenary session meeting in Vientiane on Jul 25, 2024.
Weeks after it seized power, the junta agreed to a five-point peace plan with ASEAN that it has since ignored as it wages a crackdown on dissent and battles armed opposition to its rule. Both Singapore and Indonesia have been critical of the junta's power grab, which has divided the 10-member ASEAN bloc.
The military's readiness to re-engage diplomatically was a sign of its"weakened position", a Southeast Asian diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity.The losses triggered rare public criticism of its top leadership.
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