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View all search resultsRussia backs Myanmar junta's efforts to 'stabilise' country: Lavrov
The Southeast Asian nation has been in chaos since the military's power grab last year, with more than 2,100 people killed in a crackdown on dissent, according to a local monitor.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) arrives to attend a bilateral meeting for G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting in Nusa Dua on Indonesia resort island of Bali on July 8, 2022.
(AFP/Willy Kurniawan)
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ussia backs the Myanmar junta's efforts to "stabilise" the crisis-wracked country, its foreign minister said on Wednesday during talks with top generals, according to Russian state media.
The Southeast Asian nation has been in chaos since the military's power grab last year, with more than 2,100 people killed in a crackdown on dissent, according to a local monitor.
"We are in solidarity with the efforts [by the junta] aimed at stabilising the situation in the country," Sergei Lavrov said during talks in Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw, according to the TASS news agency.
Russia is a major ally and arms supplier of the isolated junta, and has been accused by rights groups of arming the military with weapons used to attack civilians since last year's coup.
"Next year, you will hold legislative elections and we wish you success in making your country even stronger and more prosperous," Lavrov added, referring to proposed August 2023 elections that opponents of the coup have said will be neither free nor fair.
Lavrov is scheduled to travel on to an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers' meeting in Cambodia from which the junta's top diplomat has been excluded over its refusal to engage in dialogue with its opponents.
His visit comes after the junta sparked renewed international outrage last week when it announced it had executed four prisoners, including a former lawmaker and a democracy activist, in the country's first use of capital punishment in decades.
