JAKARTA/YANGON -- The decision not to invite Myanmar Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing to this month's ASEAN summit, an unusual move for a bloc that prides itself on consensus, comes amid a diplomatic impasse that has frustrated others in the international community.
In an emergency meeting of foreign ministers Friday, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations "accepted the decision to invite a nonpolitical representative from Myanmar to the upcoming summits," chair Brunei said in a statement the day after. Sources said this is most likely to be a Foreign Ministry bureaucrat.
