Labuan Bajo, Indonesia—The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Leaders’ Summit ended with a consensus among nine member-states to engage all stakeholders to end the bloodshed in Myanmar, including junta leaders who were previously barred--
May 11 as he returned from a successful participation in the 42nd Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Alfred Frias
“We welcomed ongoing efforts to strengthen cooperation between ASEAN and China and were encouraged by the progress of the substantive negotiations towards the early conclusion of an effective and substantive COC consistent with international law, including the 1982 UNCLOS, within a mutually agreed timeline,” Widodo said in his chairman’s statement.
“We must avoid the ascendance of might and the aggressive revision of the international order. In an increasingly volatile world, we require constraints on power contained by the force of the rule of law,” he said. Widodo insisted ASEAN members must remain united in resolving the crisis or risk the “break up” of the bloc.
Mr. Marcos said the recalibrated approach will see ASEAN trying to engage Myanmar “at every level and to all the political factions that are active and are involved in that crisis situation.” Since the Myanmar military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in 2021 it has overseen a bloody crackdown on dissent that has killed thousands of people.
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