Oreign Asean News Today

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has called on Myanmar to facilitate visits by its new special envoy to help defuse its political conflict, according to a statement released after a meeting of the groups foreign ministers earlier in the week.

ASEANs special envoy to Myanmar will visit the military-controlled country in March in a bid to defuse the political crisis there but without setting preconditions that he be allowed to meet all conflicting parties, the groups chair Cambodia says.