The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is holding is annual leaders' summit in Laos this year. The world leaders will also hold talks with a representative of Myanmar's junta to try and negotiate a solution to the country's civil war.
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00:00Southeast Asian leaders are meeting with a Myanmar junta representative in Laos to try
00:05and negotiate a solution to the country's violent civil war.
00:09The talks are part of an annual ASEAN summit, which had barred Myanmar's military government
00:14from attending.
00:15This year, the junta has sent a senior foreign ministry official, marking the first high-level
00:20meeting with their envoy in over three years.
00:23Also on the agenda is growing tensions in the South China Sea, where there have been
00:28a series of confrontations between China, the Philippines and Vietnam.