BANGKOK — Two days of meetings on Myanmar ’s violent political crisis began Thursday in the Thai capital Bangkok, the latest in a long series of regional talks that have made no headway in restoring peace to the war-torn Southeast Asian nation.

Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations gathered to discuss the Five-Point Consensus the bloc agreed to in April 2021, two months after Myanmar’s military seized power

Thailand hosted two regional meetings with Asian leaders this week, aimed at ending a bloody civil war in Myanmar that has led to a spiraling political and security crisis.

Thailand on Thursday hosted a first meeting on the ongoing civil war in Myanmar involving the military-ruled country's top diplomat

Myanmar's bloody civil war has intensified over the past year, with ethnic-minority rebels seizing vast swathes of territory from the military junta.Thailand this week hosted two separate regional meetings in an attempt to tackle the political and security crisis in Myanmar.

A Bangkok-based think tank has warned that the ongoing turmoil in Myanmar, which has displaced over 1.18 million citizens, is now Southeast Asia's most pressing humanitarian crisis.

The junta said its foreign minister would attend along with "ministers, deputy ministers and officials" from China, Laos, Thailand, India and Bangladesh.