Asean envoys in Myanmar

Envoys from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations arrived in Myanmar for talks with junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, as the coup-stricken nation enters its fifth month of crippling unrest. Myanmar has been in chaos and its economy paralysed since the February coup, with more than 800 people killed in a brutal military crackdown on dissent, according to a local monitoring group. Erywan Pehin Yusof, Brunei's second minister for foreign affairs, and Asean Secretary-General Lim Jock Hoi arrived in the capital Naypyidaw late Thursday, a senior Myanmar official told AFP. The envoys were to meet Min Aung Hlaing yesterday. No details of the meeting was released.  Asean leaders in April issued a "five-point consensus" statement that called for the "immediate cessation of violence" and a visit to Myanmar by a regional special envoy after meeting Min Aung Hlaing. But the general said in a later television interview that Myanmar was not ready to adopt the plan.