Asean Foreign Ministers Urge Prosecution Over Myanmar Atrocities
- Ministers met on sidelines of UN General Assembly in New York
- Myanmar has yet to begin repatriating displaced Rohingya
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Southeast Asian foreign ministers urged Myanmar to prosecute those responsible for a brutal military crackdown against its Muslim Rohingya minority, Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan told his country’s Parliament on Tuesday.
Due to the political sensitivities surrounding the issue, foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, known as Asean, met unaccompanied on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday in New York, Balakrishnan said.