(29 Jan 2024)
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Luang Prabang, Laos – 29 January 2024
1. Huge of Laos Overseas Minister Saleumxay Kommasith getting into press convention
2. Shut of flags
3. Huge of Saleumxay talking
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Saleumxay Kommasith, Laos Overseas Minister:
“This time, we really feel a bit of bit optimistic that the engagement, may fit, though we now have to confess that, the problems which can be occurring in Myanmar won’t resolve in a single day.”
5. Cutaway of reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Saleumxay Kommasith, Laos Overseas Minister:
“I believe there may be in all probability a small mild on the finish of the tunnel. We’re positive the extra we have interaction Myanmar, the extra understanding, a deeper understanding, not solely between ASEAN member states, vis a vis, or about Myanmar scenario, but additionally understanding by the worldwide group about the actual conditions which can be occurring in Myanmar.”
7. Cutaway of reporter asking query
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Saleumxay Kommasith, Laos Overseas Minister:
“No matter occurs within the South China Sea needs to be resolved in a peaceable method by means of dialogue and consultations and all ASEAN member states and even China demanded that we should always not resort to any dispute which needs to be resolved in a peaceable and dialogue.”
9. Huge of Saleumxay leaving stage
10. Shut of ASEAN signal on stage
STORYLINE:
The escalating violence in Myanmar and China’s growingly assertive posture within the South China Sea stay key focuses of the Affiliation of southeast Asian Nations, in line with Laos Overseas Minister Saleumxay Kommasith.
Saleumxay instructed reporters after the ASEAN Overseas Minister’s Retreat in Luang Prabang, Laos, on Monday that the problems in Myanmar will not be solved shortly, regardless of some optimism.
Laos is the primary ASEAN nation that shares a border with Myanmar to function chair because the army seized management of the nation in February 2021 from the democratically elected authorities of civilian chief Aung San Suu Kyi.
ASEAN has developed a “5-Level Consensus” plan for peace, which requires the speedy cessation of violence, a dialogue amongst all involved events, mediation by an ASEAN particular envoy, provision of humanitarian assist by means of ASEAN channels, and a go to to Myanmar by the particular envoy to fulfill all involved events.
The army management in Myanmar has to date ignored the plan. On the similar time, a humanitarian disaster is rising, with greater than 2.6 million individuals pressured from their houses resulting from escalating violence, in line with the United Nations.
Myanmar has been prohibited from sending its overseas minister or any political consultant to the ASEAN conferences because the finish of 2021 when it blocked the group’s envoy from assembly with Suu Kyi. It’s represented in Luang Prabang by a non-political Overseas Ministry official as a substitute.
AP video shot by Tian Macleod Ji
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