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Be ready for a long list of reasons for why someone cannot show up,' he added.Īnother Southeast Asia analyst, Hunter Marston, said Cambodia's chairmanship had got off to a 'rocky start.' 'When you do things others don't want you to do, they don't come to your party and have excuses. The chickens are coming home to roost, it's karma for Cambodia's 'Cowboy Diplomacy,' ' Ear, an associate dean and professor at the university's Thunderbird School of Management in Phoenix, told RFA. 'This is not officially a boycott, but came up with some excuses as to why they cannot join the meeting. 7, 2022, in this screen grab obtained by Reuters from a video.ĪSEAN states who cited travel difficulties were likely being polite instead of saying outright that they didn't want to go to Siem Reap, according to Sophal Ear, a Cambodia expert at Arizona State University in the United States.
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Radio Free Asia, with which BenarNews is affiliated, tried to contact Cambodian government spokesman Phay Siphan and Foreign Ministry spokesman Koy Koung but did not immediately hear back from them Wednesday.ĭivisions within ASEAN over Hun Sen's trip to Naypyidaw and a potential invitation to the Myanmar junta's foreign minister to attend the ASEAN diplomats retreat might be why some diplomats chose not to attend next week's meeting, analysts said.įILE - Demonstrators protest against the visit of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Yangon, Myanmar, Jan. The postponement effectively delays the official endorsement of Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn as ASEAN's new special envoy for Myanmar. The reason for the postponement, he added, is that many ASEAN foreign ministers 'have difficulties traveling to attend the meeting.' 18-19, 2022, in Siem Reap province has been postponed,' he said in a statement on Facebook, without announcing a new date for the meeting.įILE - Myanmar Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin welcomes Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Jan. 'The ASEAN Foreign Ministers Retreat (AMM Retreat) initially scheduled on Jan. Cambodia on Wednesday postponed the first Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting under its 2022 chairmanship, the government said, amid reports of differences among the bloc's members over Prime Minister Hun Sen's visit to Myanmar last week, during which he did not meet with democracy leaders.Īn in-person foreign ministers retreat, scheduled for next week in Siem Reap, was postponed indefinitely, according to an announcement by Khieu Kanharith, the host country's information minister.