General Min Aung Hlaing last met Asean leaders during a special in-person summit in Jakarta, on April 24, 2021 - Reuters
BANGKOK (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Asean foreign ministers met online on Friday (Oct 15) after the Myanmar junta made clear it rejected a key plank of the bloc's road map to resolving the country's crisis.
According to a Reuters report citing sources, the ministers agreed that Myanmar's military chief Min Aung Hlaing - who seized power in a Feb 1 coup - would not be invited to attend the online Asean summit from Oct 26 to 28.
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