JAKARTA: Thailand's foreign minister met with ousted Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week, he told reporters on Wednesday (Jul 12), her first known meeting with a foreign envoy since she was detained following a 2021 coup.
Thailand's foreign minister met with ousted Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week, he told reporters on Wednesday , her first known meeting with a foreign envoy since she was detained following a 2021 coup.
Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained since the putsch on Feb 1, 2021 that ended Myanmar's brief democratic experiment and plunged the nation into bloody turmoil. Don confirmed that he met with Aung San Suu Kyi last Sunday and that she had called for renewed talks to end the crisis.Don said that he was advocating for"engagement with the authority in Naypyidaw", referring to the junta rulers in the country's capital.
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