The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 2026 chair the Philippines has welcomed "political and ethnic groups" from Myanmar to a meeting in a bid to advance ASEAN's stalled Five Point Consensus peace plan, the Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Theresa Lazaro said on Jan. 22. Lazaro, who took over this year as the ASEAN Special Envoy on Myanmar, did not name the groups represented or say when exactly the meeting took place. But she said that discussions included advancing de-escalati