Vietnamese Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung is scheduled to meet his Myanmar counterpart on Wednesday, Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry said, marking the first official visit by a Vietnamese foreign minister to the country since the 2021 military coup that triggered a civil war.

Trung is expected to co-chair a bilateral cooperation meeting with his Myanmar counterpart, the ministry said in a statement.

The visit comes a month after Vietnam and Myanmar exchanged new ambassadors.

Vietnam regards Myanmar as an integral member of ASEAN and considers the bloc’s Five-Point Consensus on restoring peace in Myanmar the key framework for continued engagement and support, the Foreign Ministry has said.

Myanmar’s military government has been diplomatically isolated from ASEAN since the 2021 coup, although Thailand and Laos have pushed for greater engagement in recent months.

Myanmar’s junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing visited Laos in July and Thailand in August as part of efforts to strengthen regional engagement.