PHNOM PENH (Kyodo News): Cambodia is considering rescheduling the annual ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting for Feb. 16-17 following its postponement earlier this month, the Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
Cambodia, the rotating chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for this year, is planning to exclude the foreign minister of Myanmar from the meeting as the country’s ruling military has not stopped violence against protesters, sources close to the matter said.
Only a “nonpolitical figure” from Myanmar would be invited unless the junta shows some progress in implementing ASEAN’s so-called five-point consensus, which includes a call for an immediate end to violence and the dispatch of the group’s special envoy to meet with all stakeholders in the conflict in Myanmar, the sources said.
ASEAN adopted the consensus at its special summit in April last year in the hope of resolving issues in Myanmar where political turmoil has continued since the military seized power in a coup in February 2021.
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