ASEAN in talks with junta, factions over solutions to Myanmar crisis

All sides in Myanmar have begun engaging in talks with ASEAN's special envoy over dealing with the Southeast Asian country's political crisis more than two years after the country's military junta orchestrated a coup and seized power, ASEAN's chair said Saturday.After wrapping up the Southeast Asian foreign ministers' annual retreat talks, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi told reporters that Indonesia has proposed an implementation plan based on the so-called five-point consensus, agreed upon at a special ASEAN summit in April 2021 that was attended by Myanmar junta leader Senior G…READ FULL ARTICLE