The United States says it will send a delegation made up of officials from the State Department and its international development and other agencies to Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia next week as part of efforts to address the crisis in Myanmar triggered by a military coup in February.
Japan has effectively refused to issue visas for two Myanmar military-appointed diplomats the junta seeks to send to Tokyo in place of two it fired in March, according to Japanese government sources.
Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Erywan Yusof, ASEAN s special envoy to Myanmar, agreed Thursday to work closely on finding a breakthrough in the political crisis stemming from the Feb.
Myanmar residents urge Japan to recognize anti-junta body as gov t
A few thousand Myanmar residents in Japan took to the streets Sunday to call on their host country to recognize the National Unity Government, an organization set up in opposition to the Feb. 1 military coup, as Myanmar s legitimate governing body.
While chanting for Japan to recognize the NUG and cut ties with the junta as they marched in central Tokyo, similar events took place in South Korea and Taiwan and were scheduled in the United States, Britain and other European countries in what participants called Global Myanmar Spring Revolution Day.
U.S. imposes sanctions on 2 children of Myanmar coup leader
The U.S. government said Wednesday it has added two adult children of Myanmar s coup leader to a list of people subject to U.S. sanctions over the Feb. 1 military takeover and subsequent deadly violence against anti-coup protesters.
The Treasury Department s Office of Foreign Assets Control said the sanctions are imposed on Aung Pyae Sone and Khin Thiri Thet Mon the children of Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing as well as their six companies.
The U.S. government imposed sanctions on Min Aung Hlaing and other officers on Feb. 11 following the coup, which ousted the country s elected government. It said then that the spouses and adult children of the individuals could also be blacklisted.