ASEAN's special envoy on Myanmar has held separate talks with the country's military-backed negotiators and several ethnic armed groups, with all sides acknowledging that there is no military solution to the country's civil war, Thailand's Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow said.

Thailand is ready to act as a facilitator and host future peace talks, he said, marking a significant step towards reviving ASEAN's stalled peace initiative for Myanmar, where an estimated 100,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since the 2021 military coup.

Providing further details of the meetings at a press briefing on Wednesday, Sihasak said ASEAN foreign ministers on Sunday held their first in-person talks with Myanmar's foreign minister since the coup that ousted Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government and triggered the civil war.

A day later, ASEAN special envoy Maria Theresa Lazaro, who is also the Philippines' foreign minister, and Sihasak met representatives of six ethnic armed groups, including the Karen National Union and the Karenni National Progressive Party.

Sihasak said the groups were open to dialogue but had yet to reach a common position, which they were still working to formulate.

Lazaro and Thai officials also met Myanmar's military-backed National Solidarity and Peacemaking Negotiation Committee.

According to Sihasak, all sides recognised that a military solution was not in their interests.

"We hope that eventually we could find some common ground where we can begin some talks," Sihasak said. "At the moment it is probably going to be talks about talks – how to conduct the talks and where to conduct them."

Thailand and ASEAN also hope to meet Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained since the coup, in person.

Sihasak said Thailand remained committed to ASEAN's peace roadmap for Myanmar, known as the Five-Point Consensus.