ASEAN Meeting Opens in Burma

Foreign ministers and representatives from across Southeast Asia have begun talks in Burma, also known as Myanmar, in the first high-level ASEAN meeting held in the country since the former pariah state joined the grouping in 1997. In his opening remarks in the ancient city of Pagan, Burmese Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin stressed the importance of strengthening relations with its strategic partners, China and India, in order to achieve a planned ASEAN economic community by...

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