Michael Vatikiotis is Asia director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and author of "Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant."
Something had to give: at a hastily-called "emergency meeting" of foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on Friday, regional officials confronted their failure to address the fallout from Myanmar's February 1 coup and decided that military chief Min Aung Hlaing should not join its leaders summit later this month.
