The ASEAN-Australia Special Summit that starts in Melbourne on Monday ... Australia has hosted ASEAN leaders once before in Sydney in 2018. 2021 Year military junta seized control of Myanmar ...

Chaos has prevailed in Myanmar since a 2021 military coup sparked ... Opening yesterday’s summit, Laos Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone said Asean faced many challenges and had its own ways ...

There was no consensus among the ASEAN foreign ministers about having a political representative from Myanmar at the summit, so the ministers decided to instead invite a non-political representati ...

The consensus has made scant progress since its unveiling in April 2021, just months after ... into dialogue with its opponents. During an Asean summit in October, the bloc called for "an ...

The foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Sunday called on the ... Myanmar has been in turmoil since early 2021 when its military overthrew the elected ...

Aside from the long-simmering territorial conflicts, the Jakarta summit talks focused on the protracted civil strife in Myanmar, which has tested ASEAN and caused divisions among member states ...

Malaysia officially assumed the Asean chairmanship on Jan 1, 2025, under the theme of Inclusivity and Sustainability, reflecting the nation’s aspiration to shape a united and prosperous Asean.