A spokesperson for Indonesia’s foreign ministry said he was not aware of the meeting. India and Thailand’s foreign ministries, the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, and the NUG did not immediately respond to queries from Reuters, while a spokesperson Myanmar’s junta could not be reached. The sources, who asked not to be named and declined to identify the representatives because the process was confidential, said Myanmar, India, China, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos were present at Tuesday’s meeting, as was Indonesia, the current ASEAN chair. The talks this week were the second in a “Track 1.5” dialogue that started in Thailand last month and came as frustration grows within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc at the military’s failure to implement a peace plan it agreed to in April 2021. Myanmar was plunged into conflict and economic chaos in 2021 after its powerful military overthrew the elected civilian government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, triggering an armed resistance that it has sought to violently crush. BANGKOK, Thailand – Government and think-tank representatives from Myanmar and its neighbors, including India and China, held talks in New Delhi on Tuesday, April 26, as part of a secretive effort to de-escalate a bloody crisis in the army-run Southeast Asian nation, two sources said.
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