ASEAN urges Myanmar to facilitate visits by new special envoy

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 group's foreign ministers earlier in the week.The statement issued late Friday by the Cambodian chair of the meeting urged the military junta "to facilitate missions of the special envoy of the ASEAN chair, beginning with the first visit to Myanmar as soon as possible in order to move forward implementation of the five-point consensus.""In this regard, we recognized that in undertaking h…READ FULL ARTICLE