South east Asian diplomats condemn ongoing civil war in Myanmar
SOUTH-EAST Asia’s top diplomats on Saturday condemned violence in Myanmar’s ongoing civil war and urged “practical” means to defuse rising tensions in the South China Sea during the last of the three-day regional talks.
Top diplomats from China, Russia and China were also present at the summit.
The weekend talks in the Laotian capital, Vientiane, were dominated by the increasingly violent and destabilising civil war in Myanmar.
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