NUG Criticizes EU and ASEAN for Failing to Take Action Against Myanmar Regime
EU-ASEAN leaders met at a summit in Belgium last week, but didn’t offer any support to the civilian National Unity Government.
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EU-ASEAN leaders met at a summit in Belgium last week, but didn’t offer any support to the civilian National Unity Government.
What explains New Delhi’s greater engagement with the country’s military government?
Daw Zin Mar Aung, the National Unity Government’s foreign minister, talks to The Irrawaddy about how ASEAN and the UN must do more to pressure the military regime.
After nearly two years of getting nowhere to stem the tide of open armed conflict in Myanmar in the aftermath of the Myanmar military junta putsch that ousted the civilian government in February 2021, the ASEAN Leaders' Review and Decision on the Implementation of the Five-Point Consensus (5PC) 15-point statement was released on 11 November with the aim to change the dire status quo.
The regional bloc’s plan to “converge” its 5-Point Consensus with the junta’s election roadmap will only compound the total failure of its approach to the crisis so far.