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СпутникиРНSpaceXРоскосмосNASALast week, the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar said that agreeing to the meeting was a sign of the ASEAN special envoy's "timidity and poor judgment."
The Philippines has dismissed a strong criticism from an expert advisory group that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s recent engagement with Myanmar’s foreign minister undermined the bloc’s peace efforts, stating that it continues to adhere to the bloc’s Five-Point Consensus plan for managing the conflict.
As this year’s chair of ASEAN, the Philippines hosted an “informal meeting” with Myanmar Foreign Minister Tin Maung Swe in Bangkok on July 12, the first such engagement since the coup of 2021.
Following the meeting, the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M), an independent group of international experts, said that ASEAN’s decision to hold the meeting had “rewarded the Myanmar military junta’s bloodshed and recalcitrance” and undermined the Five-Point Consensus.
Agreed in April 2021, two months after Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup, the Consensus called for an immediate cessation of violence, inclusive dialogue involving “all parties” to the country’s conflict, and unimpeded access for humanitarian aid. However, in the five years since, the military has done very little to implement the most important elements of the Consensus.
In a statement authored by former Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah, ex-Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, and three former U.N. experts on Myanmar, SAC-M argued that Philippine Foreign Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro, the current ASEAN special envoy on Myanmar, had brought “a disastrous combination of timidity and poor judgment to her role” since taking over at the start of 2026.
SAC-M accused Lazaro of agreeing to the meeting “without extracting a single concession from junta leader and accused war criminal Min Aung Hlaing.”
“ASEAN’s failure on Myanmar while the country burns and the junta entrenches itself poses serious questions about the bloc’s durability,” SAC-M stated. It finished by calling for a “reset” at next week’s ASEAN meetings in Pasay City, when the bloc’s foreign ministers are set to hold a “extended informal consultation” on the implementation of the Five-Point Consensus.
In a response yesterday, Lazaro described SAC-M’s assertions as “malicious and misleading,” and stated that the meeting formed “part of the Special Envoy’s mandate to pursue constructive dialogue among all parties” to Myanmar’s conflict.
“It was not, and should not be mischaracterized as an abandonment of the [Five-Point Consensus],” Lazaro said, arguing that this remained the ASEAN’s “primary reference to address the political crisis in Myanmar.”
“The path to peace can only be obtained through resolute diplomacy with all parties to the conflict,” she wrote.
The exchange between Lazaro and the SAC-M reflects a broader disagreement about how ASEAN should approach the situation in Myanmar.
Since late 2021, the 11-nation bloc has barred Myanmar’s military regime from its summits over its lack of efforts to implement the Five-Point Consensus. But in recent months, ASEAN has begun a process of “calibrated engagement” with the new military-backed civilian government that took office in April – even as the Myanmar military continues to launch fatal air strikes and other military attacks across the country. On top of that, the military-dominated Myanmar parliament recently passed a motion rejecting the Five-Point Consensus as a form of interference by ASEAN that was inconsistent with the country’s “political reality.”
In these circumstances, it certainly seems perverse to seek re-engagement with Naypyidaw. The reality, however, is that after five years, the demand from ASEAN’s member states for a harder line on Myanmar has waned, while some member states, particular Thailand, have pushed hard to bring Myanmar back into the “ASEAN family.”
While SAC-M is right to argue that ASEAN should respond to the Myanmar parliament’s rejection of the Five-Point Consensus by laying out “an escalating series of consequences triggered by continued junta non-compliance,” it is very unlikely to obtain the necessary consensus among its member-states for such a course of action.
Unfortunately, the most pressing question moving forward is therefore what Myanmar’s military is willing to offer ASEAN in order to obtain full normalization, and whether ASEAN will accept it.
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