New Delhi: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Saturday exchanged perspectives on the situation in Myanmar with his Brunei Darussalam counterpart Dato Haji Erywan, who is also the ASEAN’s special envoy to Myanmar.
India had earlier welcomed the appointment of Erywan as a special envoy to Myanmar by the ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and asserted that it will continue to support the restoration of the democratic process in Burma.
In April ASEAN leaders had urged the head of Myanmar’s military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who took power in a coup on February 1, to end the violent crackdown in the country.
At the summit, 10-member ASEAN had reached a consensus on five points.
These include: there shall be an “immediate cessation of violence” and restraint by all parties; all parties shall commence “constructive dialogue” toward “a peaceful solution in the interests of the people”; a special envoy of the ASEAN chair shall mediate the dialogue; ASEAN shall provide humanitarian assistance, and the special envoy and delegation shall visit Myanmar to meet with all parties.
This meeting was held in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, the first in-person gathering of the bloc’s leaders since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.