Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi pledges to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen that Japan will support efforts by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to improve the situation in junta-controlled Myanmar.
The annual policy document found the bloc’s 10 member states lay out their consensus positions on the conflicts in Ukraine and Myanmar, among other issues.
Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn said that the bloc had never been “confronted at the same time with so many perils for the region and the world at large.”