Vietnamese foreign minister to visit Myanmar

Vietnamese Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung is scheduled to meet with his ​counterpart in Myanmar on Wednesday, Vietnam's ​foreign ministry said, marking the first official ⁠visit by a Vietnamese foreign minister to ​the country since the 2021 military coup that ​triggered a civil war.

Following are more details of the trip:

Trung is expected to co-chair a bilateral cooperation meeting ​with his Myanmar counterpart, the ministry said ​in a statement.

The trip comes a month after Vietnam ‌and ⁠Myanmar exchanged new ambassadors.

Vietnam regards Myanmar as an integral member of ASEAN and considers ASEAN's Five-Point Consensus on bringing peace to the country ​as the ​key framework ⁠for the bloc's continued engagement and support, the foreign ministry has ​said.

Myanmar's government has been isolated diplomatically ​from ⁠ASEAN since the 2021 coup, though Thailand and Laos have pushed for greater engagement in ⁠recent ​months, with Myanmar's junta chief ​turned president Min Aung Hlaing visiting Laos in July and Thailand in ​August.

-Reuters