(Reuters) – Myanmar’s junta chief on Monday defended his army authorities’s actions in a regional peace plan and stated it was searching for to revive order, however that its opponents have been committing violence, which ASEAN ought to take discover of.
In a televised handle, coup chief Min Aung Hlaing reiterated the junta’s five-step course of towards restoring democracy, and stated a few of the issues demanded by a particular envoy of the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have been non-negotiable.
It was Min Aung Hlaing’s first remarks since ASEAN agreed to sideline him from an upcoming leaders’ summit over lack of progress in a peace roadmap.
(Reporting by Reuters Workers; Writing by Martin Petty; Modifying by Christopher Cushing)
