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US Secretary of State Blinken to discuss Burma visit
The State Department says it will also focus on Burma during US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Southeast Asia next week.
England Next week, a meeting of the G-7 foreign ministers of the world’s seven largest economies will be held in Liverpool. He will visit Malaysia and Thailand to discuss the worsening crisis in Burma after the military coup, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
Ahead of Blinken’s visit, US State Department adviser Derek Chollet, who will travel to Cambodia and Indonesia from December 8 to 13, will discuss regional issues, including Burma, on Wednesday.
To end violence in Burma; To release all detainees; The statement stressed the importance of strengthening US-ASEAN cooperation in pressuring Burma’s military authorities to allow free access to humanitarian aid and a return to an inclusive democracy.
ASEAN has adopted five agreements, including the appointment of a special envoy to address the political crisis and armed conflict that have erupted in Burma since the military coup on February 1. However, as the consensus has not yet materialized, it has decided not to invite Burma’s military leader to recent ASEAN summits, and international pressure is mounting.
“In each country the secretary will reiterate to his counterparts the importance of holding the Burmese military regime to account for its crimes and seeking to restore Burma’s path to democracy.”
Kritenbrink
“In each country the secretary will reiterate to his counterparts the importance of holding the Burmese military regime to account for its crimes and seeking to restore Burma’s path to democracy,” Kritenbrink said, using a former name for Myanmar.
The United States has repeatedly denounced the February 1 military coup that ousted the civilian government in Myanmar and the jailing of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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