5 ASEAN consensus points after the meeting with Myanmar General is the first positive step in trying to remove stress in this country, according to experts.

ASEAN leaders on 24/4 secret meetings of the crisis lasted nearly 3 months in Myanmar.

General Min Aung Hlaing (left) to Indonesia at noon April 24 to attend the meeting with ASEAN leaders.

Notably, ASEAN gave 5 consensus points on the crisis, in which unanimously "needed to immediately end violence in Myanmar and every parties needed the highest restraint."

Share with VnExpress, Professor Alistair Cook of S. Rajaratnam International Relations Research School, Nanyang Technology University in Singapore, evaluating "ASEAN's potential only begun" with a joint statement on April 24.

"ASEAN has united to agree on an action framework. Now it's when they turn this into actual actions. This is a good start for efforts to support Myanmar people," he assessed.

He said that ASEAN President's claims presented the keys to ASEAN to play a leading role, as well as member countries and the international community could participate in contributions.

Sharing on the personal page, the Gregory Poling expert of the Center for Strategic and International Research (CSIS) also assessed ASEAN to use "strong words" for the problem of Myanmar.

According to Poling, a different point of noteworthy in the Statement of ASEAN President, the Foreign Minister of countries will meet with the US and Chinese representatives to discuss the crisis "as soon as possible".

Experts have expected ASEAN to promote an intermediary role to support finding a political and peaceful solution to the Myanmar problem.

ASEAN regional organization's role was somewhat shown with a special high-level meeting in Jakarta on April 24.

Hunter Marston, researcher Doctorate of International Relations Industry, School of Coral Bell Pacific Issues of Australia National University, said that ASEAN has "contributed an important part to the political process" in Myanmar.

According to Marston, 5 unexpected consensus points, but still ignored some key content in stress between protesters with the military government, as the issue of release for political prisoners.

"Consensus is still unknown in requesting the setup of dialogue between the parties. We can imagine the statistical scenario Min Aung Hlaing refused to dialogue with the unified ethnic government because the military capital told this organization

According to Marston, the international community may partly hope to respect the military committed by deciding to end bloodshed.