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Inviting Myanmar junta to Bangkok was 'in regional interest': FM Don

Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai (Government House photo)

Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said the caretaker government held a forum for representatives of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and other countries to listen to delegates from the Myanmar junta for the sake of the regional interest, and was not acting on behalf of Asean.

The minister was responding to a report that the government was hosting an informal meeting on Sunday and Monday for delegates from Asean member states to meet with representatives of the Myanmar junta that seized power in a 2021 coup – despite the fact that Asean was excluding them from its high-level meetings.

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