A Myanmar delegation led by the junta’s Chief of Military Security Affairs Lt-Gen Ye Win Oo attended the 19th ASEAN Military Intelligence Meeting-AMIM-19 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 15 March, according to the junta aligned Myanmar International television (MITV).

The theme for the conference was “Solidarity for Harmonized Security”. Other topics discussed included an exchange program for junior intelligence officers, the establishment of an ASEAN military intelligence community and the issuing of a Joint Statement, according to MITV.

Previously, ASEAN had acted tougher with the Myanmar junta. They banned the junta leader Min Aung Hlaing from the annual summit of ASEAN leaders in October 2021 and banned any junta representative from attending the summit of ASEAN foreign ministers held in February 2022.

But, on 3 March 2022, the Myanmar Police Colonel Zaw Lin Tun was appointed as the Executive Director of the ASEAN Police Secretariat whilst he and a delegation from the Myanmar Police Force were attending the 40th ASEANAPOL Conference held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 1 to 4 March. As well as representatives from ASEAN, representatives from other countries including the US, the UK, China, Japan, France and Australia also attended.

According to campaign group Myanmar Now, since the illegal coup attempt, no ASEAN country has placed sanctions on the Myanmar military junta and its businesses.

In April 2020, ASEAN leaders, in the presence of Min Aung Hlaing, reached a five-point consensus to try to defuse the situation in Myanmar. In February Chum Sounry, a spokesman for the foreign ministry in Cambodia, which holds the ASEAN chairmanship for 2022, said: “There has been little progress in carrying out ASEAN's Five-Point Consensus on how to relieve the situation in Myanmar”.

In a previous statement Myanmar Now said: “While no progress has been made towards the agreed goals, ASEAN has allowed the illegitimate Myanmar military junta to continue participating in many of its meetings and hold the rotating chairpersonship of ASEAN Supreme Audit Institutions.”