Asean, United States redouble collective efforts towards peaceful solution in Myanmar

US President Joe Biden participates in the US-Asean Special Summit at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on May 13, 2022. - The summit is being held to commemorate 45 years of US-Asean relations and strengthen Asean's central role in delivering sustainable solutions to the region’s most pressing challenges. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

BANGKOK: Asean and the United States will redouble their collective efforts towards a peaceful solution in Myanmar.

In a joint vision statement after the Asean-United States Special Summit – the first-ever to be held in Washington, D.C. – it said Asean member states and the United States remain deeply concerned over the crisis in Myanmar.