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Asean leaders urge Myanmar military chief Min Aung Hlaing to end violence and release political prisoners Myanmar’s Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (right) with other Asean leaders in Jakarta. Photo: EPA
Myanmar s coup leader Min Aung Hlaing on Saturday met leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in Jakarta for crisis talks, where the junta chief was urged to immediately halt a bloody post-coup crackdown on protesters and to release detained civilian leaders.
The special meeting - attended by the senior general and six leaders of the 10-nation bloc - ended after two hours. Thailand, Laos and the Philippines were represented by their foreign ministers. The delegations of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Cambodia and Vietnam were led by their respective heads of government.
About 150 protesters marched down the wide boulevards of Pabedan neighbourhood with their hands raised in the three-fingered salute adopted by the opponents of military rule
This handout photo taken on April 23, 2021 and released by the Indonesian Presidential Palace shows Indonesian President Joko Widodo (right) and Vietnam s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh waving from the balcony of the palace in Jakarta, ahead of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) summit on the Myanmar crisis starting on April 24. - AFP JAKARTA, April 24 (Xinhua): Indonesian President Joko Widodo has met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, who arrived here on Friday (April 23)to attend the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) leaders meeting on Myanmar, and the two discussed bilateral cooperation as well as the situation in Myanmar.
JAKARTA (REUTERS) - South-east Asian leaders will try to forge a path to end violence and instability in Myanmar at a summit on Saturday (April 24) expected to include Min Aung Hlaing, the general in charge of the military takeover in February that sparked bloodshed and economic chaos.
The gathering of leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in Jakarta is the first coordinated international effort to ease the crisis in Myanmar, an impoverished country that neighbours China, India and Thailand, and was ruled by the military from 1962-2011.
With participants attending in person despite the pandemic, Indonesia s foreign minister Retno Marsudi said on Friday that the summit reflected the deep concern about the situation in Myanmar and Asean s determination to help Myanmar get out of this delicate situation .
Members of Presidential Security Forces inspect a vehicle at a check point outside the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretariat ahead of a leaders meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Southeast Asian leaders are to meet Myanmar s top general and coup leader in an emergency summit in Indonesia Saturday, and are expected to press calls for an end to violence by security forces that has left hundreds of protesters dead as well as the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political detainees. - AP Jakarta, April 24, 2021 (AFP): South-East Asian leaders will hold Myanmar crisis talks Saturday with junta leader Min Aung Hlaing who has become the focus of international outrage over a military coup and crackdown that has left more than 700 dead.