SINGAPORE, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Singapore's Foreign Ministry confirmed
Wednesday that all Southeast Asian nations' foreign ministers will meet in
Singapore next Monday to discuss help for cyclone-hit Myanmar.
"At the meeting, the ministers will discuss the humanitarian situation in
Myanmar and consider how best to assist Myanmar in its relief and recovery
efforts," said the statement by the Foreign Ministry.
Singapore, the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN), offered last Friday to host a special meeting of ASEAN foreign
ministers to discuss how the regional grouping can help Myanmar in its relief
and recovery efforts.
The grouping, which has a long-standing policy of not interfering in the
internal affairs of member states, is facing the blame that it was moving too
slow to offer relief help to member Myanmar.
Members Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines were
quick with their individual dispatches of relief supplies and monetary aid in
the first days after the disaster.