Publishing date: Apr 23, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 3 minute read •
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JAKARTA Southeast Asian leaders will try to persuade Myanmar’s junta to end violence and let in aid at a summit on Saturday, diplomats said, in the first concerted international effort to ease the crisis in the country.
Leaders will meet behind closed doors at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, in the hope of encouraging candid discussions, two diplomatic sources told Reuters.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Seven Southeast Asian leaders are expected to attend a summit with head of Myanmar s junta to discuss the crisis caused by the military coup, according to diplomats and officials in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital where Saturday s meeting will be held.
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who led the coup that deposed Myanmar s democratically-elected government in February, is expected to participate in the summit of the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the sources said.
Thailand s prime minister and the president of the Philippines have said they would send their foreign ministers. ASEAN s other members include Myanmar itself, Brunei, Cambodia, the host Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam.
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