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Since her detention in February 2021, her only known encounter with a foreign envoy came in July last year, when the then Thai foreign minister Don Pramudwinai said he had met her for over an hour.
Hun Sen, now serving as the head of Cambodia’s senate, was the first foreign leader to visit Myanmar after the coup, travelling there in 2022.
Min Aung Hlaing pledged to consider the request to speak to Suu Kyi “with the highest attention”, Hun Sen’s Facebook post said.
Up to now, the junta has rebuffed numerous requests by foreign leaders and diplomats to meet Suu Kyi, including from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) regional bloc.
ASEAN has spearheaded efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the escalating conflict in Myanmar, with little success.
More than 4,900 people have been killed in the military’s crackdown on dissent since its coup and more than 26,000 others arrested, according to a local monitoring group.
