Myanmar military leader Min Aung Hlaing has agreed to arrange for an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) special envoy from Cambodia to meet members of the ousted ruling party on a future visit, a senior Cambodian official said on Monday.
The pledge, made in a January 26 video call with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, represents a small concession in a deadlocked peace process since Myanmar’s military seized power a year ago from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD).
Min Aung Hlaing did not identify which members of the NLD might be made available, said Kao Kim Hourn, a minister in Hun Sen’s office who was part of the video meeting.
