© Reuters. Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong meets with Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo on the Istana in Singapore March 16, 2023. REUTERS/Edgar Su/Pool
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong mentioned on Thursday the city-state would work with Indonesia and different Southeast Asian nations, in addition to companions just like the United Nations, to push Myanmar’s army rulers to implement a stalled peace plan.
He was talking after assembly visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
Lee mentioned the leaders regretted the dearth of progress on a peace plan led by the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Myanmar, which has been gripped by violence and unrest since a coup in February 2021 that upended a decade of democratic reforms.
“Singapore will proceed working with Indonesia and ASEAN members, plus ASEAN’s companions just like the U.N., to push for the total implementation of the five-point consensus,” he mentioned, referring to the peace plan that Myanmar’s high common agreed to with ASEAN.
Indonesia at present chairs the 10-member ASEAN bloc.
As well as, Singapore and Indonesia would work collectively on creating renewable power, their leaders introduced.
The settlement was amongst a number of memorandums of understanding signed by the 2 nations, together with Singapore sharing data that would assist the event of Indonesia’s new capital Nusantara.
