Bangkok – The?Association of Southeast Asian Nations was told on Sunday by Myanmar’s foreign minister that detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was “a sister” who was in good health and would be looked after, ASEAN’s special ?envoy to Myanmar said.
Maria Theresa Lazaro, the Philippine foreign minister, has been pressing for access to 81-year-old ?Suu Kyi, ?who has been held since her elected government was ousted in a 2021 military coup ?that plunged the country into conflict.
“My recollection of the statement of the Myanmar foreign minister on Aung San Suu Kyi is that she’s in good health and that the premise of how he said this ?is that ’she is a relative, she’s a sister and therefore we will take care of her,’” Lazaro told a press conference.
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