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Asean envoy seeking favourable conditions for Myanmar peace process

Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn talks during his news conference after the Asean foreign ministers' meeting in Phnom Penh on Feb 17, 2022. (Reuters photo)

PHNOM PENH: A Southeast Asian special envoy will visit Myanmar next week, his office said on Friday, to lay the groundwork for a peace process that its ruling junta has been accused of delaying while it tries to consolidate power and crush its opposition.

Prak Sokhonn, Cambodia's foreign minister and envoy for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), wants to hold Myanmar's military boss Min Aung Hlaing to his commitment to end hostilities in the wake of a coup he led last year.

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