BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: The Sultan of Brunei, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, yesterday afternoon (Jan 23) received in audience Deputy Prime Minister and Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of Myanmar U Than ...

Association of Southeast Asian Nations appoints Malaysian diplomat Othman Hashim special envoy to Myanmar - Anadolu Ajansı

Myanmar has been in turmoil since 2021 when its military overthrew the government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

(Reuters) - Foreign ministers of the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN at a weekend retreat upheld their decision to bar Myanmar’s ruling generals from their summits and limit the country's participation to a non-political level, said Malaysia who currently holds the chairmanship on Monday.

Southeast Asian foreign ministers are gathering for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, Malaysia, seeking a breakthrough over Myanmar’s drawn-out civil war and territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

ASEAN's fifth envoy to Myanmar, Tan Sri Othman Hashim, appointed during the bloc's meeting of foreign ministers.

LANGKAWI: The ongoing Myanmar crisis and tensions in the South China Sea will feature in the discussions at the Asean Foreign Ministers' Retreat here during the weekend, says Malaysian Foreign Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Seri Amran Mohamed Zin.

ASEAN banned Myanmar’s military leaders from formal ... ASEAN members Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei along with Taiwan have overlapping claims with China, which asserts ...

From left to right, Laos's Foreign Affairs Minister Thongsavanh Phomvihane, Myanmar's Permanent Secretary ... Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo, Brunei Darussalam Foreign Minister Erywan Yusof ...

The crisis in Myanmar has emerged as one of the bloc ... ASEAN members Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei along with Taiwan have overlapping claims with China, which asserts sovereignty ...

This article is authored by Cchavi Vasisht, senior research associate, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi.

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