Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing expressed his will to join talks with Prof Mohammed Yunus during the BIMSTEC summit scheduled to be held in Bangkok on April 3-4.
Min Aung Hlaing, is seeking a high-level bilateral meeting with Prof Mohammed Yunus during the regional leaders' summit, Reuters reports based on three well-informed sources.
The junta chief is the subject of widespread western sanctions and is barred from attending summits of the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN due to the Myanmar military's failure to implement an agreed peace plan with the bloc.
However, he will join the April 3-4 summit in Bangkok of the BIMSTEC grouping of mostly South Asian countries, where the Myanmar delegation is seeking bilateral meetings with top leaders and officials in the region.
The meetings being sought include ones with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the chief adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government, Muhammed Yunus, the sources said.
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