00:00The meeting also agreed for ASEAN to undertake internal ASEAN consultations on the proposal
00:06for permanent ASEAN special envoy on Myanmar. Otherwise, we take turn. Every year we change
00:14special envoy, then we have to start all over again, all over again, and there's no end
00:18to it. So that we have agreed we want to explore, and majority does not agree. Nobody
00:24is it otherwise. And just matter of who is going to be the permanent special envoy, maybe
00:31on three-year term. We have already sent a very strong signal, message to Myanmar, that
00:37we would want Myanmar to comply with the five-point consensus first. Stop the hostilities, cease
00:44fire, sit down together with all parties, with the stakeholders, and then let this humanitarian
00:51aid reach the respective area. And then generally we talk about election. There's no point having
01:00election if it is partially participated by people of Myanmar. That will aggravate the situation
01:08further. So as far as ASEAN is concerned, we are very much insist upon this five-point consensus
01:16and we are ever-willing to address the five-point consensus to be fulfilled by this SAC. That
01:23is not a priority of ASEAN. What is the point if it is just a whitewash for to cover up in
01:30the eye of international community? So there's no point. But it's up to them. If they want
01:39ASEAN members, then I think they should be together and then stick to the five-point consensus and
01:44we are ever-willing to assist in whatever way that we can help Myanmar.
01:50Dathut Sri, Eileen from the Associated Press. Just on the issue of Myanmar, you talk about this proposal
01:58for the special, a permanent position for the special envoy to Myanmar. Is that already something
02:04that's confirmed or it's just a proposal stage at this point?
02:07Dathut Sri, Eileen from the Associated Press. That's a proposal stage and everybody for that
02:10matter have no objection to that. But the operational, who is going to be the permanent special envoy
02:17will be discussed at some level then we will bring it back to the leaders. But basically the idea
02:23of having a permanent envoy there, I think we received a very good response from all the respective
02:30states this morning.
02:31Okay. Also, thank you. Just to follow up on the issue of Myanmar where you said all you
02:38want for the SAC is to comply with the five-point consensus and to move towards dialogue.
02:46Malaysia has taken this stance of trying to engage all sides, right? SAC, NUG. But you
02:53yourself said that there's a trust deficit. So I'm just wondering, are you getting any signals
02:59at all from the SAC that it is willing to do that? Because in the last four years, nothing has,
03:06it just refused to comply. So is there any signal that Malaysia is getting that things might change?
03:14Well, I think it's like, the participants might be the same and the other
03:20are those people, but people are not able to, we try to convince them. Because
03:23five-point consensus is also there as the signature and I think five-point
03:26consensus is acceptable to everybody. Actually, five-point consensus is nothing
03:31fantastic, because what we need to do is to have a ceasefire, an unhindered
03:36I will be going to Manapidaw again in June, not as a Malaysian foreign minister, but as
03:43chairman of ASEAN. I'm going to talk to them further. We have to explore. We have to be
03:51patient. Because the warring section has been against this other for decades. So it's not
03:58as simple as what we think. But I suppose with the recent calamity, the earthquake happened,
04:07I think everybody have come to their sense. I think that's a good opportunity. Like what
04:12happened in ASEAN last time after this, what do you call it, tsunami. Everybody come to
04:17their sense and they come and sit down and they can start talking to each other. I hope
04:23that they will happen.
04:30What do you think about the criticism that said that the ASEAN who doesn't want to
04:36be able to take care of their efforts in dealing with the conflict in Myanmar?
04:43We don't want to take care of their hands in the case of ASEAN. That's the
04:50thing I think.
04:51Based on what happened in Myanmar is the comparison of it. It's not
04:57the importance of it. It doesn't mean that we are not confined to Myanmar. They
05:01are now in a trans border crime with money laundering, such as job scams, etc.
05:11been displaced, million of people been displaced. Malaysia sendiri terpaksa menguruskan 200
05:19lebih ribu orang daripada Rohingya. Ini dah jadi masalah dalam ASEAN. Kita bukannya
05:25nak mencampuri hal ehwal dalaman mereka, tetapi dia dah menjadi sebagai isu ASEAN.
05:31Jadi itu sebabnya sebagai negara dalam ASEAN, kita bersetuju untuk kita pastikan isu Myanmar
05:38ini ditangani sebaik mungkin bersama-sama sebagai melalui ASEAN mekanism.
05:43All right.
05:45All right.
05:52All right.
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