The Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has barred Myanmar’s military-appointed foreign minister from attending an upcoming meeting, after the United Nations Security Council called for an end to “all forms of violence” in the country as well as the release of detained civilian leaders, including Aung San Suu Kyi.
An official from Cambodia, which holds ASEAN’s rotating chairmanship, said on Thursday that Myanmar’s Wunna Maung Lwin will not be able to participate in a meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers later this month because of a lack of progress on a peace plan that the country’s top general had agreed to last year.
