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Foreign minister Prak Sokhonn, in his capacity as the ASEAN special envoy on Myanmar, on June 30 delivered two million Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by China, through the bloc, to the crisis-hit country, stressing that humanitarian assistance should not be curtailed due to politics or race.
Prak Sokhonn’s five-day visit will involve meetings with regime figures and members of select ethnic armed groups, but significant progress is unlikely.
Foreign minister Prak Sokhonn, in his capacity as the ASEAN special envoy on Myanmar, on June 30 delivered two million Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by China, through the bloc, to the crisis-hit country, stressing that humanitarian assistance should not be curtailed due to politics or race.
Three months since his last update to the UN rights forum in Geneva, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Thomas Andrews, said that he’d met youngsters who’d fled the country after suffering “irreparable harm”.
This week, Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn will begin his second official mission to the country as the bloc’s special envoy.