Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen accepted invite to lead high delegation to meet Myanmar military junta leader, Min Aung Hlaing

According to the press release from Cambodia, Prime Minister Hun Sen will be leading a high delegation consist of his deputy, Foreign Minister, Industry Minister as well as a number of senior government officials from the 7 to 8 January 2022.

The announced meeting is said to discuss bilateral and multilateral cooperation (read: taking sides; forming support network with, possibly China) and recent developments in ASEAN (read: how to deal with the anti coup ASEAN members).

This meeting would signify the first meeting of a foreign leader with the coup regime.

This planned trip is already protested by the likes of Amnesty International as well as huge swaths of anti-junta Burmese.

“Hun Sen’s rogue diplomacy may do more harm than good by breaking ranks with ASEAN’s response to the Myanmar crisis and sending mixed messages to Myanmar’s coup leader General Min Aung Hlaing, who has been blocked from recent high-level ASEAN meetings in a rare rebuke.” 

Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Research Emerlynne Gil