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Discord over Myanmar as ASEAN postpones year’s first meeting

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By Poppy McPherson, Tom Allard and Rozanna Latiff (Reuters) – Unresolved differences about engagement with Myanmar’s military rulers are causing discord among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), diplomats and government officials say, as a ministers’ meeting set for this week was pushed back. The friction follows a tumultuous final few months of 2021 after ASEAN took the unprecedented step of sidelining Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing from its leaders’ summit in the wake of a military coup and use of deadly force against protesters. The thorny issue of Myanmar attending ASE…

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