JAKARTA — Russia strongly supports the Southeast Asian diplomatic effort to end the crisis in Myanmar and has conveyed similar messages to the country’s military leadership, its foreign minister said on Tuesday.
The five-point consensus agreed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) bloc should be the basis by which the situation can be resolved, Sergei Lavrov said during a visit to Jakarta.
“In our contacts with Myanmar leaders, military leaders, we promote the position of Asean which should be in our view, considered as a basis for resolving this crisis and bring the situation back to normalcy,” Lavrov said.
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