ASEAN leaders will head to their annual summit with some measure of credibility intact following the exclusion of Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing from the bloc’s supreme policymaking body, but they need to keep the momentum going in implementing previously agreed principles, experts say.
Regional leaders will meet virtually this week without the coup leader in attendance following the announcement by Brunei Darussalam, Asean chair this year and host of the summit, that a non-political representative had been invited instead.
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