Reaching Consensus over Dinner
The consensus reached by ASEAN leaders was prepared by foreign ministers. The discussion on the cessation of violence in Myanmar was rather difficult.
Gabriel Wahyu Titiyoga
May 3, 2021
ON the night before the summit of leaders of Southeast Asian nations in Jakarta on Saturday, April 24, Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs Retno Marsudi invited her counterparts from neighboring countries to have working dinner. They gathered at the foreign ministry’s Pancasila Building and discussed the planned leaders meeting to resolve the crisis in Myanmar. “We spoke openly and debated for two and a half hours,” said Retn
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