{"id":152,"date":"2025-05-03T06:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/?p=152"},"modified":"2025-05-03T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:34:11","slug":"anwar-and-marcos-back-unrestricted-aid-for-myanmar-urge-ceasefire-extension-amid-asean-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/2025\/05\/03\/anwar-and-marcos-back-unrestricted-aid-for-myanmar-urge-ceasefire-extension-amid-asean-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Anwar and Marcos back unrestricted aid for Myanmar, urge ceasefire extension amid Asean efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malaymail.com\/news\/malaysia\/2025\/05\/03\/anwar-and-marcos-back-unrestricted-aid-for-myanmar-urge-ceasefire-extension-amid-asean-efforts\/175437\">Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim doing the phone call with Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. <\/a>\u2014 Picture from Facebook\/Anwar Ibrahim<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, 03 May 2025 1:22 PM MYT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 \u2014 Malaysia and the Philippines share the stance that all humanitarian assistance to Myanmar must be delivered without discrimination or restrictions, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said this was agreed upon during a telephone conversation with Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anwar said during the conversation with the leader, also known as Bongbong Marcos, he also conveyed Malaysia\u2019s wish and call for the ceasefire in Myanmar to be extended to ensure humanitarian aid can continue to be channelled to affected populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis afternoon I made a phone call to my good friend (Marcos) to share several matters and latest developments regarding ASEAN and global issues,\u201d he said in a Facebook post yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding tariff issues, Anwar, who is also Finance Minister, said he informed that Malaysia could leverage its position as ASEAN Chair to demonstrate its importance to the United States (US) in global tariff negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe US decision to postpone tariff implementation for 90 days currently provides relief to allow further discussions on related matters, considering Malaysia\u2019s strengths (in certain products),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister said before ending the call, he also wished Marcos well in facing the Philippine general election on May 12, while expressing hope to meet the leader at the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur soon. \u2014 Bernama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim doing the phone call with Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. \u2014 Picture from Facebook\/Anwar Ibrahim Saturday, 03 May 2025 1:22 PM MYT KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 \u2014 Malaysia and the Philippines share the stance that all humanitarian assistance to Myanmar must be delivered without discrimination or restrictions, Prime Minister Datuk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-news","tag-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}