အာဆီယံသေဘာတူညီခ်က္ NUG နဲ႔ ထိစပ္အ ေကာင္ အထည္ေဖာ္ဖို႔ SAC-M တိုက္တြန္း

VOA
ဗီြအိုေအ (ျမန္မာဌာန)
30 ဧၿပီ၊ 2021

ျမန္မာ့အေရး အာဆီယယံအစည္းအေဝးႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေျပာဆိုေနသည့္ အင္ဒိုနီးရွားသမၼတ Joko Widodo ။ ဧၿပီ ၂၄၊ ၂၀၂၁။

ျမန္မာ့အေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွႏုိင္ငံမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ (ASEAN) ရဲ႕ အခ်က္ငါးခ်က္ပါ သေဘာတူညီ ခ်က္အေပၚ အာဆီယံနဲ႔ ႏုိင္္ငံတကာအေနနဲ႔ ၾကားကာလ အမ်ဳိးသားညီၫြတ္ေရးအစိုးရ (NUG) နဲ႔ ထိစပ္ၿပီး ခုိင္မာတဲ့လုပ္ေဆာင္မႈနဲ႔ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ရမယ္လုိ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ အထူးအၾကံေပးေကာင္စီ (SAC-M) ရဲ႕ ဒီကေန႔ရက္စြဲနဲ႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္မွာ ေျပာထားပါတယ္။

Fighting erupts in Myanmar; junta to ‘consider’ ASEAN plan

Reuters

April 27, 2021

 

Ethnic minority Karen insurgents attacked a Myanmar army outpost near the Thai border on Tuesday in some of the most intense clashes since a military coup nearly three months ago threw the country into crisis.

The Karen National Union (KNU), Myanmar's oldest rebel force, said it had captured the army camp on the west bank of the Salween river, which forms the border with Thailand.

The Myanmar military later hit back against the insurgents with air strikes, the KNU and Thai authorities said.

ASEAN Leaders Tell Burma Coup General to End Killings

NTD

ASIA & PACIFIC

The Associated Press 

Apr 25, 2021

Indonesian President Joko Widodo (C) delivers his press statement as, (L-R) Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto, and Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung listen, following ASEAN Leaders’ Meeting at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 24, 2021. (Muchlis Jr, Indonesian Presidential Palace via AP)

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Southeast Asian leaders demanded an immediate end to killings and the release of political detainees in Burma in an emergency summit Saturday with its top general and coup leader who, according to Malaysia’s prime minister, did not reject them outright.

The leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations also told Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing during the two-hour talks in Jakarta that a dialogue between contending parties in Burma (also known as Myanmar) should immediately start, with the help of ASEAN envoys.

Analysis: On Myanmar, ASEAN pushes boundaries of "non-interference"

REUTERS
Panu Wongcha-umKay Johnson
April 27, 2021

A woman prepares a placard out of crossed out portraits of Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing during protest against the military coup in Myanmar, in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 24, 2021 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Dhemas Reviyanto/ via REUTERS

Few had high hopes that a summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which counts Myanmar among its members, would produce any serious initiative to end the bloodshed after Myanmar's coup, with the junta leader himself in attendance.

Yet the summit's concluding "consensus statement" - accepted by all member states including Myanmar - did stretch the bounds of ASEAN's longstanding principle of non-interference in members' internal affairs.

It called for an end to violence and a dialogue among all parties - interpreted by some as an attempt to broker talks between the junta and Myanmar's parallel National Unity Government (NUG) - as well as the naming of an ASEAN envoy and a humanitarian aid mission.

Pan-Southeast Asian Agreement Aims to Stop Spillover of Myanmar Violence

VOA

By Ralph Jennings
April 24, 2021

President Joko Widodo, center, accompanied by other Indonesian officials, delivers a press statement following a meeting of ASEAN leaders at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 24, 2021. (Courtesy Indonesian Presidential Palace)

TAIPEI - Saturday's strongly worded call from a bloc of 10 Southeast Asian nations for an end to post-coup violence in Myanmar moves the region a step away from unrest infecting other countries and a step toward peacemaking, analysts say.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) issued a five-point consensus calling for “immediate cessation” of violence in Myanmar, “utmost restraint” by all actors there and the start of peace talks. An ASEAN envoy will help mediate dialogue in Myanmar, the consensus said, and the group will offer humanitarian aid. Myanmar is a group member.

Summit: Burmese military open to ASEAN delegation visits

Thaiger

Neill Fronde
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Today’s ASEAN summit in Jakarta has yielded progress regarding the situation in Myanmar with Burmese junta leader Min Aung Hlaing stating he’s not opposed to a special envoy being created and dispatched to Myanmar. The military leader also said he would consider several other steps proposed by the leaders of the Asian nations. With leaders or representation from most countries of the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, today’s meetings carried high expectations to work towards some sort of resolution.

Chance for Asean to stop Myanmar military rulers

NEWSTRAITSTIMES

April 24, 2021

This handout photo taken and released by Dawei Watch on April 23, shows protesters holding signs calling for the arrest of Myanmar armed forces chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing during a demonstration against the military coup in Dawei. -AFP pic/Dawei Watch

LETTER: Southeast Asian leaders must unite to push the Myanmar junta to end horrific abuses against ordinary people and ensure it does not recognise the military as the country's legitimate rulers.

Asean is holding a Special Summit on Myanmar in Jakarta, today, to discuss the crisis brought about by the Tatmadaw's (military) coup in February. Junta leader and Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who stands credibly accused of being one of the chief architects of the genocide against the Rohingya, is expected to attend the meeting.

The People of Myanmar Have Rejected the Generals. ASEAN and the World Must Do so as Well

TIME

BY ALEX AUNG KHANT
APRIL 23, 2021

A poster showing de-facto leader of Myanmar's military government, General Min Aung Hlaing, is torn in half on railings outside the country's embassy, on 8th April 2021, in London, England.

Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images

Myanmar’s political turmoil started much earlier than the coup d’ état that took place on Feb. 1. For the past ten years, the military has put on a grand show of relinquishing its power, and certainly appeared to do so when Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) won elections five years ago. But all of that was merely superficial, as the military-drafted Constitution of 2008 reserved a quarter of parliamentary seats for military officers, and gave the generals control of three key ministries—Defense, Border Affairs and Home Affairs.

ျမန္မာ့အေရး အာဆီယံထိပ္သီး အစည္းအေဝး သေဘာတူ ညီခ်က္အေပၚ အျမင္မ်ား

ဧရာဝတီ

25 April 2021

စစ္တပ္က အာဏာသိမ္းၿပီးေနာက္ အလြန္ဆိုးဝါးေသာ အေျခအေနမ်ားကို ရင္ဆိုင္ေနရသည့္ ျမန္မာျပည္ကို တစုံတရာ ကုစားနိုင္ရန္ဆိုေသာ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ႏွင့္ အာဆီယံနိုင္ငံက ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား စုေပါင္းၿပီး အေျဖရွာရန္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းသည့္ ျမန္မာ့ အေရး အာဆီယံ ထိပ္သီးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား အစည္းအေဝးကို မေန႔က အင္ဒိုနီးရွားနိုင္ငံ ဂ်ကာတာၿမိဳ႕တြင္ က်င္းပခဲ့သည္။

ယင္းအစည္းအေဝးတြင္ အာဆီယံ ေခါင္းေဆာင္တဦးခ်င္းစီက ျမန္မာျပည္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ၎တို႔၏ သေဘာ ထား အသီး သီးကို တင္ျပေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသလို အာဏာသိမ္း စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး မင္းေအာင္လွိုင္ ကိုလည္း ျမန္မာျပည္ အေရး နာရီဝက္ခန္႔ ရွင္းျပခြင့္ေပးခဲ့သည္ဟု ၾကားသိရသည္။

ယင္းအစည္းအေဝးၿပီးေနာက္ အာဆီယံ၏ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္အေပၚ ျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ား၏ အားမလို အားမရအသံ မ်ားကိုလည္း ၾကားေနရသည္။ အာဆီယံက ျမန္မာျပည္အေရး အေျခအေနပိုမိုတိုးတက္ေအာင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ ေပးနိုင္မည့္ အေျခအေန ရွိ ေနပါၿပီလား။

Do or die moment for ASEAN in Myanmar

ASIA TIMES
By NILE BOWIE

APRIL 23, 2021

Bloc's extraordinary Myanmar crisis meeting on April 24 could be the last diplomatic chance to prevent a regional catastrophe

Milk Tea Alliance Indonesia in action during Solidarity for the Myanmar People in front of the ASEAN Secretariat building in Jakarta on March 12,2021. Photo: DasrilRoszandi / NurPhoto via AFP

SINGAPORE – When Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders meet in Jakarta to discuss the worsening political crisis in Myanmar on April 24, it will mark the first time that the regional organization holds a highest-level meeting to address a specific situation of concern involving one of its members.

Non-interference in domestic affairs has traditionally been one of ASEAN’s basic operating principles, along with decision-making by consensus. As such, Saturday’s summit is seen as a test of the grouping’s code of constraint as regional leaders find themselves under mounting pressure to engineer a workable, face-saving resolution before the crisis spirals further out of control.

ASEAN Won’t Save Myanmar

FP

BY OREN SAMET |

APRIL 23, 2021,

The organization isn’t designed to solve problems—particularly not one as thorny as the post-coup unrest in Myanmar.

Protesters take part in a candlelight demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 3. STR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Ever since Myanmar’s military, the Tatmadaw, staged a coup against the country’s civilian government on Feb. 1, leading to a seemingly irrepressible popular uprising, foreign-policy experts have continued to search for potential international solutions to the deteriorating situation. With major Western powers like the United States possessing limited leverage over the Tatmadaw, and China and Russia stymieing a robust response at the international level, many have looked to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to play a more significant role.

ASEAN urged to consider Myanmar’s expulsion over coup abuses

Aljazeera
23 Apr 2021

Analysts and former diplomats say Saturday’s summit in Jakarta could be the most consequential in the regional bloc’s 54-year history.

The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), an activist group, says 739 people have been killed by Myanmar's security forces since the coup and 3,300 people are in detention as of Thursday [Stringer/Reuters]

Rights groups and activists are urging the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to deny legitimacy to Myanmar’s coup leader and even consider the country’s expulsion from the regional bloc over rights abuses by security forces, as leaders of the member states prepare to attend a summit in Jakarta.

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who led the February 1 coup that deposed Myanmar’s democratically-elected government, is expected to participate in Saturday’s summit of the 10-member ASEAN alongside seven head of states.

‘ASEAN Has Violated Its Own Charter’: Altsean-Burma Founder

THE IRRAWADDY 

22 April 2021

Buddhist monks in Mandalay hold placards reading "We Support NUG-National Unity Government" during a march against the military regime on April 21, 2021. / Tayzar San

ASEAN will hold a summit in Jakarta this weekend to seek a solution to the deteriorating situation in Myanmar following the military coup in February.

Since the takeover, the country, which is a member of ASEAN, has witnessed a bloodbath with more than 700 civilians killed by the regime for protesting against military rule. The regime’s brutality has prompted widespread international condemnation, forcing the 10-member bloc to get involved. Following initiatives by some member states including Indonesia, the summit is scheduled for Saturday.

ASEAN calls summit on Myanmar as EU widens sanctions

REUTERS
April 20, 2021

Protesters defend themselves from the troops in Kale, Sagaing region, Myanmar March 28, 2021 in this picture taken March 28, 2021 obtained by REUTERS.

Southeast Asian countries will discuss the crisis in Myanmar at a summit in Jakarta on Saturday, but some are choosing to send ministers rather than heads of government.

The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been trying to guide Myanmar, a member, out of the bloody turmoil triggered by the military overthrow of Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government on Feb. 1.

But the group's principles of consensus and non-interference have restricted its ability to overcome members' divergent views on how to respond to the army's killing of hundreds of civilians.

Rohingya repatriation losing Int'l attention

Prothomalo

Raheed Ejaz

Dhaka
20 Apr 2021

• The budget for Rohingya emergency response is yet to be finalised

• $2.29 billion dollar allocated against the demand of $3.43 billion in last 4 years

• The joint response plan 2021 seeks $1.00 billion

Two and a half months have already passed since the Myanmar military seized the state power in a coup on 1 February.

As the time rolls on, protests against the junta government and bloodshed are intensifying.

The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has called a special summit to discuss the crisis in Myanmar.

Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing is going to attend the summit in Jakarta, Indonesia on 24 April. However, the National Unity Government led by the ousted National League for Democracy (NLD) has urged the ASEAN not to recognise the Myanmar junta leader.

The ongoing crisis in Myanmar and the global reactions on the issue has made uncertain the repatriation of millions of Rohingya people to Myanmar from the cramped camps in Bangladesh while the burning issue is losing the international attention.

How to Defeat Myanmar’s Military

The New York Times

By Zin Mar Aung

April 16, 2021

Ms. Zin Mar Aung, a former political prisoner, is an elected member of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Parliament) of Myanmar and the acting foreign minister of the Committee Representing the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. 

Elected legislators deposed in the February coup have a plan for building a new federal democratic union. We need help.

Protesters prayed in Yangon, Myanmar, in March for demonstrators who died during demonstrations against the military coup.Credit...Theint Mon Soe/SOPA Images and LightRocket, via Getty Images

The people of Myanmar have been fighting for the life of our nation since the military, or Tatmadaw, seized power on Feb. 1. We have been protesting peacefully, risking our lives to protect neighborhoods, cities and towns — fighting not for any---one political party, ethnic group or leader, but for freedom and a genuine federal democracy.

This is why those of us who were duly elected to office by the people of Myanmar, and who continue to act for their interests, are now asking for direct help.

Rohingya crisis: Bangladesh hopes Malaysia will play instrumental role in ASEAN summit

The Daily Star

Star Digital Report

April 13, 2021

Bangladesh hopes Malaysia will play an instrumental role to move the issue of Rohingya refugees forward within ASEAN and help achieve a durable solution to the crisis.

Bangladesh High Commissioner to Malaysia Golam Sarwar said Malaysia was one of the countries that immediately responded to Bangladesh's call for assistance during the early weeks of the Rohingya crisis in 2017, reports Malaysian news agency Bernama.

Indonesia says UK backs ASEAN push for Myanmar crisis resolution

REUTERS
Reuters Staff
APRIL 7, 2021

JAKARTA (Reuters) - The United Kingdom will support Southeast Asian countries in efforts to resolve the crisis in Myanmar, Indonesia’s foreign minister said Wednesday, after talks with her visiting British counterpart.

FILE PHOTO: Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi delivers her speech during a press briefing with Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 10, 2020. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/File Photo

Indonesia is among several countries leading a push for high-level talks between leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Myanmar, where nearly 600 people have been killed in a crackdown on demonstrators opposing a Feb. 1 coup.

“We discussed... how the international community, including the UK could support the ASEAN effort to help Myanmar in resolving this situation,” Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said in a news briefing after talks with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

Jokowi's ASEAN leadership

ELEVEN

THE JAKARTA POST/ANN

7 APRIL 2021

Police personnel stand guard during a demonstration by supporters of detained Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu in front of a court house in Yangon on November 3, 2020. (AFP/Sai Aung Main)

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has received a strong mandate to host an ASEAN special summit to discuss how the regional grouping should deal with the crisis unfolding in one of its member states, Myanmar, after the military seized power from the democratically elected government on Feb. 1.

This is a diplomatic scoop for Jokowi, who has previously shown little appetite for foreign affairs but now is taking firm action to assist the Myanmar people.

Myanmar coup: Asean leadership offers best chance to avert a refugee crisis

South China Morning Post

Lucio Blanco Pitlo III

Opinion

7 Apr, 2021

• Many international actors are vying to play the role of peacemaker in Myanmar, but Asean – flaws and all – remains the most suited to broker talks

• The efforts of Indonesia, along with other key members, show genuine interest to stop growing instability in the country from spilling across the region

Myanmar refugees line up to receive rescue materials in a camp in Manghai, a small border town between China and Myanmar in Yunnan province, in November 2016. Continuing violence in Myanmar has neighbours China, India and Thailand worried about a fresh exodus of refugees fleeing across their border. Photo: Simon Song

A breakthrough could be in the offing as China lends support to an Asean-led initiative to de-escalate the situation in Myanmar and bring warring parties to a dialogue. Last week, foreign ministers from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines flew to Nanping in southeastern Fujian province to meetForeign Minister Wang Yi.