Tag: ASEAN

Dhaka seeks proactive role of ASEAN

- Times Report -

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has urged Indonesia and the ASEAN to play a proactive role to facilitate an early repatriation of the displaced Rohingya people currently sheltered in Bangladesh on humanitarian grounds.He reiterated that the problem was created by Myanmar and it has to be solved by Myanmar

Myanmar says it won’t attend ASEAN foreign ministers meeting

- Times Report -

Myanmar will not participate in this week's meetings in Cambodia of foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, spurning an invitation to send a non-political representative instead of its chief diplomat, its government said Monday. Cambodia, the current ASEAN chair, said earlier this month that members of the regional

Global realities begin to accommodate the Myanmar junta

- Afsan Chowdhury -

The guarded approval by the ASEAN of the Myanmar regime is a sign of current global real politics. It shows that the mono-domination of global politics by Western agenda, perhaps masked by its slogan of ‘democracy’ is reaching the limits of its sell by date as regions and even the