Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations welcomed a Myanmar junta official's participation in their meeting Wednesday but emphasized their stance of not permitting the junta chief to attend such meetings without "concrete progress" on a peace plan agreed upon between Myanmar and other ASEAN members after the 2021 coup.The leaders agreed on the point during their meeting in Laos' capital of Vientiane, marking the first regular ASEAN summit attended by a Myanmar representative since the military staged the Feb. 1, 2021 coup and ousted the democratically elected government led by …READ FULL ARTICLE
