ASEAN fails to achieve Myanmar breakthrough again

Min Aung Hlaing's regime boycotts foreign ministers' meeting

20220217 ASEAN foreign ministers meeting Phnom Penh Cambodia

Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah, Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, Laotian Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith and ASEAN Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi pose for a group photo at the ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting in Phnom Penh on Feb. 17. © Reuters

MASAYUKI YUDA, Nikkei staff writer

BANGKOK -- Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations failed to achieve a breakthrough in issues related to the situation in Myanmar on Thursday after leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing's military regime refused to send a nonpolitical representative to discuss them.

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