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BANGKOK, Aug 6 – Myanmar’s junta chief turned President\u00a0Min Aung Hlaing<\/a>\u00a0received a red-carpet treatment on \u200ca visit to Thailand on Thursday, part of efforts by Bangkok to push for re-engagement between its war-torn neighbour and the regional bloc ASEAN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The retired general, who seized power in a 2021 coup, is the subject of a raft of Western sanctions and has sought international legitimacy since becoming Myanmar’s president<\/a> in April, which followed an election dominated<\/a> by an army-backed party in \u200bthe absence of any viable opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At an arrival ceremony in Bangkok, a military band played national anthems before Min Aung Hlaing, dressed in a \u200bdark business suit, walked a red carpet with Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to inspect an honour guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With a civil war<\/a> \u2060raging in Myanmar following the 2021 coup, Thailand is pursuing “calibrated re-engagement”<\/a> hoping that its neighbour will implement a stalled peace initiative led by the Association \u200bof Southeast Asian Nations, which has barred Myanmar’s leaders from its summits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At a bilateral meeting on Thursday, Min Aung Hlaing pledged to pursue peace and economic growth \u200band improve ties with ASEAN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Reuters) BANGKOK, Aug 6 – Myanmar’s junta chief turned President\u00a0Min Aung Hlaing\u00a0received a red-carpet treatment on \u200ca visit to Thailand on Thursday, part of efforts by Bangkok to push for re-engagement between its war-torn neighbour and the regional bloc ASEAN. The retired general, who seized power in a 2021 coup, is the subject of a raft of Western sanctions and has sought international legitimacy since becoming Myanmar’s president in April, which followed an election dominated by an army-backed party in \u200bthe absence of any viable opposition. At an arrival ceremony in Bangkok, a military band played national anthems before Min Aung Hlaing, dressed in… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60234,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60232\/revisions\/60234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}