Showing posts with label Cold War Diplomacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cold War Diplomacy. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

ASEAN on Myanmar’s Coup: Revisiting Cold War Diplomacy on Cambodia

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DEEPAK NAIR
22 MAR, 2021
A battle for international recognition between Myanmar’s junta and Aung San Suu Kyi’s deposed civilian government is underway. The opposition in the incarnation of the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) has urged the international community not to recognize the junta, while the junta has charged the CRPH as “illegal” and guilty of “high treason.”

The battle lines have been drawn with the extraordinary address to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) by Myanmar’s Permanent Representative U Kyaw Moe Tun. In his speech, Kyaw Moe Tun broke ranks with the junta and delivered a message from the CRPH that urged international condemnation of the coup and denial of recognition for the junta-led State Administration Council regime.