
Myanmar junta chief arrives for talks with Southeast Asian leaders
CNN
Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, who led the military takeover that sparked turmoil in Myanmar, arrived in Jakarta on Saturday for a meeting of Southeast Asian leaders seeking to forge a path to end violence in the country.
The gathering of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta is the first coordinated international effort to ease the crisis in Myanmar, an impoverished country that neighbors China, India and Thailand. Myanmar is part of the 10-nation ASEAN. With participants attending in person despite the pandemic, Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said on Friday the summit reflected the "deep concern about the situation in Myanmar and ASEAN's determination to help Myanmar get out of this delicate situation."
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