MANILA: The issue of Myanmar's looming chairmanship of Asean is so controversial striking at the group's founding principles and future aspirations that it could only be discussed during the coffee break of an informal foreign ministers' meeting.
The Asean ministers wouldn't even allow their usual note-takers to attend Monday's off-the-record discussion of what Singapore Foreign Secretary George Yeo called an unpleasant family problem.''
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