Myanmar: It is not clear whether Prak Sokhonn will meet members of the Natonal Unity Government or detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi in his visit to crisis-hit Myanmar.

Prak Sokhonn, special envoy for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), began his three-day visit on Monday, 21 March, by holding talks with armed forces chief Min Aung Hlaing.

The two men discussed “the situation of protests and violence stemming from political disagreement” and humanitarian cooperation, the junta’s information team has said in a statement. ASEAN Secretary General Lim Jock Hoi, who is from Brunei, was also at the meeting along with the military’s foreign minister Wunna Maung Lwin.

ASEAN has been leading diplomatic efforts to end the chaos unleashed by last year’s power grab when the military removed elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s government, triggering mass protests, national strikes and conflict in rural areas and with ethnic armed groups.

More than 1,600 people have been killed in the violence and at least 10,000 detained with some half a million people forced from their homes, according to Tom Andrews, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar.

Prak Sokhonn’s trip comes amid frustration in ASEAN over Min Aung Hlaing’s failure to honour the five-point ASEAN “consensus” to end hostilities and start a peace process that he has agreed to last year at a summit in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital.