Asean's re-engagement with Myanmar runs the risk of providing legitimacy to the military-led government and undermining the regional group's own plan to end violence in the war-torn country, analysts said.
Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations met Myanmar's top diplomat at an informal gathering in Bangkok on Sunday, the first such in-person meeting since the military's 2021 coup and subsequent conflict led to the junta being barred from the bloc's summits.
