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ASEAN summit starts without Myanmar after junta leader excluded

by ASSOCIATED PRESS

KUALA LUMPUR Oct 26, 2021 - 9:12 am GMT+3
A view shows the virtual 38th ASEAN Summit, in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Oct. 26, 2021. (Reuters Photo)
A view shows the virtual 38th ASEAN Summit, in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Oct. 26, 2021. (Reuters Photo)
by ASSOCIATED PRESS Oct 26, 2021 9:12 am
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Southeast Asian leaders began a virtual summit Tuesday, with Myanmar skipping the annual meeting in protest after its top general was shut out for refusing to cooperate in defusing the crisis in his country since the military takeover.

The exclusion of Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing was an embarrassment for Myanmar’s military and the harshest rebuke by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and took over the government Feb. 1.

Brunei, who is this year’s chair of the 10-member bloc, invited Myanmar’s highest-ranking veteran diplomat, Chan Aye, as a "nonpolitical” representative but she didn’t attend the meeting, two diplomats said. The diplomats requested anonymity as they are not authorized to speak to the media.

Myanmar’s Foreign Ministry vowed late Monday to challenge ASEAN’s unprecedented move to downgrade its participation in the three-day summit, which is being held by video due to COVID-19 concerns. It said it has informed Brunei that it can only accept participation by the general, who now heads Myanmar’s government and ruling military council, or a ministerial-level representative.

The talks will be joined by other world leaders including United States President Joe Biden and the leaders of China and Russia, and are expected to spotlight Myanmar’s worsening crisis and the pandemic as well as security and economic issues. ASEAN’s sanctioning of Myanmar marked a shift from the bloc's bedrock principles of noninterference in each other’s domestic affairs and deciding by consensus.

Myanmar cited the violation of those principles – enshrined in the group’s charter – when it rejected ASEAN's ban on its military leader from the summit. Myanmar's absence at the summit follows an impasse over ASEAN's envoy to Myanmar, Brunei Second Foreign Minister Erywan Yusof, who was denied permission by the military to meet with Suu Kyi and other government leaders detained since the Feb. 1 takeover. ASEAN leaders agreed on a five-point contingency plan in an emergency meeting in April in Indonesia that was attended by Min Aung Hlaing.

They called for an immediate end to violence in the country and the start of dialogue to be mediated by the ASEAN envoy, who should be allowed to meet all parties. But Myanmar's commitment to the plan is in doubt. ASEAN has been under pressure to help end the crisis in Myanmar, where the military’s efforts to quash opposition have triggered increasingly violent and destabilizing resistance. Almost 1,200 civilians are estimated to have been killed by security forces.

The government says a smaller number of people were killed and that security forces have acted to restore order amid what it describes as terrorism and arson.

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