Publishing date: Jun 01, 2021 • 1 hour ago • 4 minute read •
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JAKARTA/BANGKOK The chair and secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plan to travel to Myanmar this week even as the 10-nation bloc remains divided on how to respond to the military coup there, four diplomatic sources said.
ASEAN, a grouping that includes Myanmar and has a policy of non-interference in the affairs of members, has led the main diplomatic effort to resolve the violent turmoil gripping the country following the overthrow of a democratically-elected government four months ago.
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Southeast Asian nations oppose arms embargo on Myanmar -report Reuters 1 hr ago
By Tom Allard
JAKARTA, May 28 (Reuters) - Nine Southeast Asian countries have urged the United Nations not to endorse a freeze on arms sales to Myanmar, according to a report from Benar News.
The report by the affiliate of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia, quoted a Liechtenstein diplomat as saying the nine states wrote a letter to nations sponsoring a draft U.N. General Assembly resolution on Myanmar, where a Feb. 1 coup has sparked mass protests and a bloody crackdown by the military-led junta.
The news outlet said the letter asked countries sponsoring the draft resolution to remove a sentence calling for an immediate suspension of the direct and indirect supply, sale or transfer of all weapons and munitions to Myanmar.
Nine Southeast Asian nations have proposed watering down a U.N. General Assembly draft resolution on Myanmar, including removing a call for an arms embargo on the country, in a bid to win the unanimous support of the 193-member body.
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By Tom Allard and Agustinus Beo Da Costa
JAKARTA, May 21 (Reuters) - A new security crackdown on armed separatists in the central highlands of Indonesia s restive Papua region will be maintained until they are wiped out, the country s police intelligence chief said.
Amid a worsening conflict, some 400 extra troops have been deployed to Papua following the assassination of a senior intelligence official there and the designation of separatists as terrorists by the Indonesian government last month.
In an interview with Reuters, Paulus Waterpauw, an indigenous Papuan and head of Indonesian police intelligence, made the strongest remarks yet about the resolve of Indonesian authorities to suppress the decades-long armed separatist rebellion in resource-rich Papua.