00:01Good evening, Mr. President.
00:03Mr. President, earlier you mentioned that there was a nano-shift scene in Myanmar.
00:08Can I get you to elaborate on that?
00:10And also, what is Myanmar's response to ASEAN's request to meet Don San Suu Kyi, and would
00:14eventual access to her shape the overall decisions ASEAN has on Myanmar?
00:19Well, that is one of the main aspects of it, is the status and the treatment of the
00:29lady, as she has come to be called.
00:35But in Myanmar, I wouldn't even go so far as to call it a shift.
00:41I think it is more a recognition that we have to find other ways or something, something
00:51to move the thing forward.
00:52And I will, we were talking about, I said, you know, in negotiations, sometimes when
00:59you change, you move the parameters one millimeter, it makes all the difference.
01:05So we're still trying to, we're asking all the member states, all the leaders and their
01:11ministries, what that millimeter shift could possibly be.
01:15And I think everyone is very enthusiastic to come up with their own ideas.
01:21And that is what we ended with.
01:23We said, let's share our ideas and let our foreign ministers talk about it, and then we
01:30will see what of those ideas are actually actionable, are actually going to be effective, and we will
01:36try them.
01:37And that was, that was the, the conclusion that we came to during this last retreat.
01:44Sorry, Mr. President.
01:45Sorry.
01:46Just a follow up.
01:46What about Myanmar's response to ASEAN's request to meet Do Aung San Suu Kyi?
01:50I'm sorry?
01:51What?
01:52What is Myanmar's response to ASEAN's request for the envoy to meet Do Aung San Suu Kyi?
01:58We didn't move on that.
01:59That is, that is, that is some, one of the main aspects of our, of our, um, negotiation,
02:10if you want to call it, with, uh, the government of, of Myanmar, uh, that she be freed and that
02:16she be allowed to exercise her rights, uh, and that if she is, uh, uh, recognized as a
02:22leader, that she'd be able to, but to function as a leader, uh, that's certainly, that hasn't
02:27changed one iota.
02:29So, thank you.
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