ASEAN meeting in Myanmar

ASEAN meeting in Myanmar

BANGKOK (Reuters): Military-ruled Myanmar will host a meeting
of economic ministers of the 10-member Association of South East
Asian Nations, China, Japan and South Korea in May, Thailand's
Nation newspaper reported on Monday.

The daily quoted a diplomatic source as saying the ASEAN
Economic Ministerial would be held in Yangon on May 1-2.
Government officials in Myanmar could not immediately be reached
to confirm the report.

The newspaper's source said the meeting would be a follow-up
to an informal ASEAN summit held in Manila in November and be the
first time Myanmar had hosted such an event since it joined the
regional group in 1997.

The paper said the meeting would discuss cooperation in the
greater Mekong sub-region and sustainable development.