Foreign Ministers of the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN will hold an informal meeting with their Myanmar counterpart in Bangkok on July 12, Thailand and Vietnam said on Thursday.
The meeting comes as the new army-backed government in Myanmar seeks the lifting of a ban on its leaders, after they were sidelined from ASEAN’s summits following a 2021 military coup and an ensuing civil war.
Background
The protracted civil war in Myanmar, in which an array of armed groups are battling against the military, has devastated swathes of the impoverished nation, killing over 100,000 people and displacing millions.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations foreign ministers had at a summit in May agreed to hold a virtual meeting with Myanmar’s top diplomat at an unspecified date, following a push by Thailand to foster greater engagement with the new administration in Naypyitaw.
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