Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Set to be ASEAN Envoy to Myanmar

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen said while speaking at the inauguration of a new hotel in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, that ASEAN or Cambodia should at least be allowed to try solving Myanmar's problems.

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday said he will appoint his country’s foreign minister, Prak Sokhonn, to be the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ special envoy to Myanmar.

Cambodia in October took over as the coming year’s chair of the 10-member regional bloc, which is referred to as ASEAN. Hun Sen earlier this month announced he will pay an official visit in January to military-ruled Myanmar, seeking to patch up the generals’ battered relationship with the group of nations.

Myanmar has been in turmoil since its army seized power in February, ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. After peaceful protests against military rule were put down by lethal force, armed resistance has grown. U.N. experts have warned the country risks sliding into civil war.

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