Thai international minister confirms assembly with Myanmar’s Suu Kyi By Reuters

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Thailand’s International Minister Don Pramudwinai on Wednesday stated he had met with Myanmar’s jailed former chief Aung San Suu Kyi and that she was in good well being.

The 78-year-old Nobel peace laureate has been jailed for 33 years for a mess of offences and was arrested in February 2021 when the army launched a coup in opposition to her elected authorities. She denies wrongdoing.

Don gave no particulars of when or the place the assembly with Suu Kyi befell. She is being held in an annex of a jail within the capital Naypyitaw and has been denied visits, together with from her authorized workforce.

Don, who precipitated a stir final month when he invited ASEAN counterparts to a gathering geared toward re-engaging with Myanmar’s ostracised army rulers, stated the target of seeing Suu Kyi was in line the bloc’s peace plan.

The so-called five-point consensus of the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is the one official diplomatic course of in play for attaining peace in Myanmar. ASEAN has barred the generals from its high-level conferences over their failure to honour the settlement.

“(The assembly) is an method of the buddies of Myanmar, who wish to see a peaceable settlement,” Don informed reporters on the sidelines of a gathering of ASEAN international ministers in Jakarta.

Suu Kyi has been convicted of greater than a dozen offences, starting from incitement and election fraud to corruption and breaches of a state secrets and techniques regulation, in trials dismissed world wide as a sham.

She has known as the fees absurd and is interesting the convictions on the Supreme Courtroom.

The 2021 coup plunged Myanmar into political and social chaos, with the junta drawing world condemnation for its heavy-handed crackdown on opponents akin to Suu Kyi.