JAKARTA — Asean foreign ministers will gather in Indonesia on Tuesday (July 11) for talks set to be dominated by the crisis in Myanmar, with the regional bloc divided over how or whether to reengage with the coup-wracked country's ruling junta.
The two-day Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting will be followed by talks with Beijing, Washington and other powers where top US diplomat Antony Blinken will seek to push back on China's assertiveness in the South China Sea.
A Southeast Asian diplomat told AFP that"extra efforts" were being made in the days before the meeting to unite the group around the issue. Asean efforts to kick-start the plan's execution have been fruitless, as the junta ignores international criticism and refuses to engage with its opponents. The meeting would be a"crucial" opportunity for Indonesia as ASEAN chair to unite the regional bloc after the Thailand talks, she said.
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