(10 Oct 2024)
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Vientiane, Laos – 10 October 2024
1. Various of ASEAN-Japan forum
2. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba
3. Close of Ishiba
4. Pan left from Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, to Myanmar Foreign Ministry permanent secretary Aung Kyaw Moe, to Indonesian Vice President Ma’ruf Amin, to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, to Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, to Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
5. Laotian Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone speaking during forum
6. Close of Ishiba speaking
7. Wide of forum
STORYLINE:
Southeast Asian leaders held a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Laos on Thursday during the second day of the ASEAN annual forum.
ASEAN leaders previously met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, and are set to meet with counterparts from, India, Australia and Canada.
This year’s forum is focused on the civil war in Myanmar and territorial tensions in the South China Sea, two key challenges that have tested the bloc’s credibility.
The timing of the meetings in Laos makes it likely the talks will also touch on the escalating conflict in the Middle East, although Southeast Asia has faced only indirect fallout.
ASEAN’s influence has historically been limited even among its own members, but the forum has been a platform for engagement between superpowers and the region.
ASEAN’s credibility has been severely tested by the war in Myanmar, where the army ousted an elected government in 2021, and fighting has continued with pro-democracy guerillas and ethnic rebels.
It’s widely believed that considerably less than half the country’s territory is under the army’s control.
Myanmar sent Foreign Ministry permanent secretary Aung Kyaw Moe to the summit, its first high-level representative at the summit in three years, after ASEAN barred it from sending political representatives in late 2021.
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