Asean weighs excluding Myanmar junta boss from summitBrunei's second minister for foreign affairs and Asean envoy to Myanmar Erywan Pehin Yusof. Malaysia's top diplomat Saifuddin Abdullah on Twitter said that without progress, "it would be difficult to have the chairman of the SAC at the Asean summit". He reiterated his remark about Min Aung Hlaing in parliament on Wednesday and said the Asean envoy was doing "whatever is humanly possible" to make progress on the roadmap. Myanmar junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun did not respond to calls from Reuters on Wednesday. Last week he told a news conference that Myanmar was cooperating with Asean "without compromising the country's sovereignty".

Source: Bangkok Post October 06, 2021 05:37 UTC