"There is consensus on Myanmar's chairmanship of ASEAN in 2014," Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said after a meeting of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ministers on the resort island of Bali.
"The ASEAN foreign ministers will recommend to our leaders," he told reporters.
The leaders' approval is considered a formality, and Natalegawa said Myanmar's role in 2014 would be outlined in a statement released at the end of the 10-member group's summit on Thursday.
Myanmar, considered an international pariah under decades of military rule, was forced to renounce ASEAN's rotating presidency for 2006 in the face of intense criticism over its human rights record.
The ASEAN announcement comes after Myanmar's new nominally civilian government, appointed after landmark elections a year ago, made a series of surprising reform gestures.
- AFP/ck
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