BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Oct 26 — Southeast Asian leaders kicked off an Asean summit today but Myanmar refused to send a representative after being angered by the bloc’s decision to exclude the country’s junta chief. The virtual gathering marked the start of three days of meetings hosted by the...
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Oct 26 — Southeast Asian leaders kicked off an Asean summit today but Myanmar refused to send a representative after being angered by the bloc’s decision to exclude the country’s junta chief.
Facing calls to defuse the crisis, Asean, which includes Myanmar, has drawn up a roadmap aimed at restoring peace but there have been doubts over the junta’s commitment to the plan. Min Aung Hlaing’s exclusion was an unprecedented snub from an organisation often criticised for being toothless, and was slammed by the junta as a breach of the bloc’s policy of non-interference in member states’ affairs.
“It is the most significant sanction that Asean has ever handed to a member state, and it is in direct response to the non-compliance that we have seen from the ,” he told a panel discussion yesterday. While member states including Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia have pushed for the bloc to take action, others with more authoritarian governments have been less vocal.
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