Last week, the new Asean chair, Indonesia, convened the first two important meetings -- the Asean Coordinating Council and Asean Foreign Ministers' Retreat -- to discuss and follow up on ongoing and emerging issues that have to do with the relevancy of Asean and its centrality.
Obviously, one key issue was the Myanmar crisis, which has just entered its third year. Other Asean members and the international community have been eager to gauge the overall style and attitude of the world's third-largest democracy toward Myanmar. In a similar vein, they want to know the Nay Pyi Taw junta's plan for the next six months and beyond.
