Stopping Myanmar violence tops meeting of Asian diplomats

Hun Sen addressing the opening ceremony of the Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting in Phnom Penh. - AFP

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Top South-East Asian diplomats meeting in Cambodia's capital intensified efforts to stop the escalating violence in Myanmar, and to address other pressing - and often divisive - regional issues.

It is the first in-person meeting of the Association of South-East Asian Nations foreign ministers since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has weakened economies and complicated diplomacy, and comes at a time of increased tensions between the United States and China, as well as global increases in food and energy prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.