LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia / SINGAPORE — Two staff members of the Singapore Embassy in Yangon were part of an Association for Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) humanitarian convoy that came under attack in Myanmar on Sunday (May 8).
"They are safe and have returned to Yangon," said a Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman in a statement on Monday night, adding that the incident took place in the eastern Shan state.
AP also said that state-run television MRTV had reported that gunmen had opened fire with small arms and a security team accompanying the convoy returned fire. MFA's statement, which did not give more details on the attack, came hours after Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo spoke about a"shootout" erupting involving officials from the Asean Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management and an Asean monitoring team en route to delivering humanitarian aid.
“Stop using force. Stop violence. Because it is the citizens who will be the victims. nobody stands to gain from such conditions,” he said in a mix of English and Bahasa Indonesia.It is unclear who was behind Sunday's attack. Asean, led by its rotating chair Indonesia, last month"strongly condemned" an air strike that reportedly killed more than 100 people in a remote village in Myanmar.
He also said that as Asean chair this year, Indonesia will continue to push for the implementation of the Five Point-Consensus.
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