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Southeast Asian leaders met for talks with a Myanmar junta representative at a regional summit on Oct. 9 as they try to kickstart faltering diplomatic efforts to broker an end to the country's civil war.Leaders pose for photos during the opening ceremony of the 44th and 45th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summits in Vientiane on Oct. 9. junta representative at a regional summit on Oct.
The bloc barred junta leaders from its summits in the wake of their February 2021 coup and the generals refused invitations to send a"non-political" representative instead. Weeks after it ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government, the junta agreed to a"five-point consensus" plan with ASEAN to restore peace, but then ignored it and pushed ahead with a bloody crackdown on dissent and opposition to its rule.Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan, whose country takes over the ASEAN chair after the summit, said it was time for Myanmar to cooperate.
Aung Kyaw Moe joined a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers on Oct. 8 where he asked for"understanding as Myanmar tried to bring a peaceful solution," Thai foreign ministry spokesman Nikorndej Balankura told reporters. "The longer the Myanmar crisis remains unresolved, the greater the risk of ASEAN outliving its usefulness in resolving conflicts within the Southeast Asian region," he told AFP.Padoh Saw Taw Nee, a spokesman for the Karen National Union , which has been battling the military for decades along the border with Thailand, said three years of ASEAN-led peace talks had only shown the bloc's"dysfunctional mechanism.
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