Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will gather in Jakarta next month to narrow topics to be discussed at the group's summit in November, the Indonesian government said Friday.
The upcoming meeting, which is likely to focus on Myanmar issues, was decided by the Asean foreign ministers during their informal talks in New York on Thursday, held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting, according to the Foreign Ministry. The talks excluded Myanmar.
Myanmar is an Asean member, but the country's foreign minister and the chief of its military government have been excluded from meetings of the 10-member bloc since October last year.
