A security team with the convoy returned fire and a vehicle was damaged, but there were no injuries, state-run television MRTV reported.įor the second year, Myanmar’s top general was not invited to the summit. Gunmen opened fire on a convoy delivering aid to displaced villagers and carrying Indonesian and Singaporean diplomats over the weekend in Myanmar’s eastern Shan state. “Yes, there is non-interference, but we will have to then have a new vision that could give us some flexibility in order to navigate and maneuver the way forward,” he said.ĪSEAN leaders on Wednesday condemned an attack on an aid convoy that their group had arranged for displaced people in Myanmar, calling for an immediate stop to violence and for the military government to comply with a peace plan. “We are stuck with the principle of non-intervention.” “ASEAN has not been able to resolve most problems, contentious ones,” Anwar told fellow leaders Wednesday in videotaped remarks he posted on his Twitter account. He has said that about 200,000 people have fled to Malaysia to escape the tumult in Myanmar. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim publicly expressed his frustrations. “The time for isolation has served its purpose,” an internal ASEAN report obtained by The Associated Press cited “some member states” as saying in a meeting of the bloc’s top diplomats ahead of the leaders’ summit. But ASEAN members appeared to be divided, with some recommending an easing of punitive actions aimed at isolating Myanmar’s generals and allowing its top diplomat and officials back to attend the summit meetings. “Engagement doesn’t mean recognition,” Widodo said.įounded in 1967 as a diverse club of authoritarian regimes, monarchs and nascent democracies, ASEAN has come under international pressure to take tougher steps to address the crisis in Myanmar. “We are still united and strong in seeing the urgency of the five-point consensus.” “We will try again and again,” Marsudi told reporters.
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