BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's embattled military government said it will send a senior Foreign Ministry official to next week's ASEAN summit in Laos, seeking to participate after a de facto ban on top-level representation as it pursues regional support.
Aung Kyaw Moe, permanent secretary of the Foreign Ministry, will be sent to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations meeting in Vientiane to start on Oct. 9. He attended a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in July.
