Myanmar says it's committed to Asean peace plan, despite general's snub


Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar's armed forces, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attends the IX Moscow conference on international security in Moscow, Russia June 23, 2021. - Reuters

YANGON, Oct 24 (Reuters): Myanmar's military rulers pledged on Sunday to cooperate "as much as possible" with a peace plan agreed with Asean,, despite a stern rebuke of the regional bloc for excluding the country's top commander from a summit this week.

In an announcement in state media on Sunday, the junta said it upholds the principal of peaceful coexistence with other countries and would cooperate with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean in following a five-point "consensus" agreed in April, a plan backed by the West and China.

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