Myanmar has been sending a foreign ministry official as its representative to Asean since January 2024.
, Laos – A senior official working under Myanmar’s junta expressed hope that Myanmar would regain its status in Asean alongside other members of the bloc and asked for “understanding and support” on the sidelines of“We are very much hopeful, very hopeful,” said Dr Khin Thidar Aye, the director-general of the Asean affairs department in Myanmar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Laos. “If we consider the extent of cooperation from our side, normalisation should be coming very soon.
Given the spiralling turmoil in Myanmar, Asean has shut Myanmar political appointees out of its high-level meetings by inviting “non-political representatives” from the country. This means neither junta chief Min Aung Hlaing nor the junta’s foreign minister, Than Swe, have attended the Asean meetings.
Speaking to reporters at the National Convention Centre in Vientiane, Dr Khin Thidar Aye said the main objective of her government was to “organise the election at an earliest date and to reinstate federal democracy in Myanmar”.
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