
JAKARTA -- Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Thursday agreed on the need for a "time-bound" peace plan for crisis-hit Myanmar, ahead of the bloc's annual summit next month.
In a statement from the chair, issued after a special meeting on the Myanmar issue, the ASEAN ministers "reaffirmed the importance and relevance of the 5PC [Five-Point Consensus], and underscored the need to further strengthen its implementation through concrete, practical and time-bound actions."