Myanmar Skips Asean Summit After Junta Leader Excluded
- Asean had invited Myanmar Foreign Ministry official instead
- Top U.S. official met with shadow government challenging junta
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Myanmar didn’t show up at an annual summit of Southeast Asian countries after rejecting an invitation to send a non-political representative instead of its junta leader, a move that isolates its government internationally as it grapples with civil strife back home.
The Association of the Southeast Asian Nations took a rare step earlier this month in excluding military leader Min Aung Hlaing from the summit in Brunei on the grounds the regime has not done enough to end violence after seizing the government in a coup in February.