Myanmar’s army chief excluded from regional summit

Min Aung Hlaing has not been invited to the ASEAN summit (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)

South-east Asian foreign ministers have agreed to downgrade Myanmar’s participation in an upcoming summit in their sharpest rebuke yet of its leaders following a February 1 military takeover.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will invite a non-political representative instead of Myanmar’s military leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, a spokesman for the group’s chair Brunei said.