00:00ASEAN Ministers also expressed support for Tan Sri Osman Hashim as the Special Envoy
00:06of ASEAN Chair on Myanmar in fulfilling his mandate.
00:11Tan Sri Osman Hashim, being former Sec-Gen of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also former
00:19Permanent Representative in New York and Geneva, also is Ambassador to US and is very familiar
00:28with the task.
00:29ASEAN has endorsed former Malaysian diplomat Osman Hashim as the ASEAN Chair's Special
00:35Envoy to Myanmar.
00:37He is the fifth Special Envoy ASEAN has appointed to Myanmar since the February 2021 military
00:44coup that sparked a political and humanitarian crisis in the country.
00:48Osman previously served as the Secretary-General of the Foreign Ministry and the Chairman of
00:54the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia.
00:57He led the Foreign Ministry during Malaysia's chairmanship of ASEAN in 2015 and also served
01:03as Malaysia's Ambassador to the United States and Czech Republic.
01:09Osman was accredited to the UN Human Rights Council and headed the Malaysian delegations
01:14to the regular sessions of the UNHRC between 2009 and 2012.
