Toothless, fangless ASEAN.

In June 2023, following a visit to the country and meeting with junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, former Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai also hosted an informal ministerial meeting with some regional countries in an attempt “to fully re-engage” with the Myanmar junta’s generals.

But the meeting was shunned by then-ASEAN chair Indonesia as well as members Singapore and Malaysia.

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n Thursday, Southeast Asian leaders dismissed the Myanmar junta’s plan to end the country’s civil war as “substantially inadequate”, according to a draft summit statement quoted by AFP.

The junta agreed on the five-point plan with ASEAN weeks after seizing power in February 2021 but then pushed ahead with a bloody crackdown on dissent. ASEAN has led so far fruitless diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.

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https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/thailand-to-host-informal-asean-talks-on-myanmar-in-december.html