Asean’s special envoy on Myanmar has held talks with ethnic minority rebel groups and a government-backed negotiation committee in an effort to tackle the country’s civil war, with both sides expressing openness to dialogue, the Philippines said on Tuesday.
The talks took place in Thailand on Monday and followed a separate meeting a day earlier between foreign ministers of the 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations and their Myanmar counterpart, their first face-to-face talks since a 2021 military coup in Myanmar that triggered nationwide conflict.
