PHNOM PENH – Myanmar's escalating violence and political gridlock are expected to dominate an ASEAN leaders' summit on Friday (Nov 11), as increasingly frustrated members of the regional bloc struggle to get the country's junta to comply with an agreed peace plan. Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) have blamed Myanmar's military rulers for failing to implement...
Asean leaders pose for a group picture as they meet with representatives of Asean Inter-Parliamentary Assembly during the Asean Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Nov 10.PHNOM PENH – Myanmar's escalating violence and political gridlock are expected to dominate an ASEAN leaders' summit on Friday , as increasingly frustrated members of the regional bloc struggle to get the country's junta to comply with an agreed peace plan.
Political, social and economic chaos have gripped Myanmar since the military overthrew an elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi last year, led a deadly crackdown on dissidents and unravelled years of reform in the erstwhile fledgling democracy. The foreign ministry of Malaysia, which has by far been the most critical of the junta, said it would be "calling for a more decisive stance by Asean" at this week's meeting.and that recommendations would be made to leaders this week on strengthening its implementation.
The junta has blamed a lack of progress on the pandemic and obstruction from armed resistance movements that it calls terrorists.
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