The decision is a measure of exceptional retaliation against the Burmese military power, which seems little inclined to defuse the political and diplomatic crisis.
Le Monde with AFP
The head of the Burmese Juntus, Min Aung Hlaing, will be excluded from the next Summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to be held from 26 to 28 October, announced on Saturday, October 16th. ‘organization. The decision is a measure of retaliation against the Burmese military power, which seems little inclined to defuse the political and diplomatic crisis.
The ASEAN, which brings together ten countries of Southeast Asia, took this exceptional measure after the junta rejected the requests for sending a special representative to dialogue with all parties and in particular the Ex-leader Aung San Suu Kyi, reversed by the army in February. The Organization’s statement reports “insufficient progress” in setting up a five-point plan, adopted in April, which needed to restore dialogue in Burma and facilitate the arrival of humanitarian aid.
The Junte has slowed its implementation, delaying the Visit from Erywan Yusof, Deputy Foreign Minister of Brunei (which currently provides the Rotating Presidency of ASEAN), designated emissary of the organization for Burma After months of negotiations.
However, some Member States recommend, however, to leave “a room for maneuver to Burma to restore its internal situation”. It was decided “to invite a Burmeal apolitical representative” at the summit, “while taking note of the reserves issued by the representative of Burma,” says the press release.
Bloody military repression
Burma, mainly led by soldiers since a coup in 1962, is a spine in the foot of ASEAN since joining the Organization in 1997. A coup resulted in February in February to a ten-year democratic parenthesis. Military repression is bloody against opponents, with more than 1,100 civilians killed and 8,400 imprisoned, according to a local NGO, the Assistance for Assistance to Political Prisoners.
The ASEAN, often judged ineffective, has been pressurized in the face of worsening the crisis. She expressed her disappointment from the lack of cooperation of the junta, which continues to suddenly suppress dissent. The Junte opposed that Mr. Yusof meets people who are prosecuted, at the forefront of which M me Suu Kyi, 76, laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
It is continued for violating CVIV-19 restrictions in the past year elections, which its party had won largely, and for illegally importing Walkies talks. It incurs decades in prison if it is convicted.
The Indonesian Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi, said Twitter on Friday that his country had proposed that Burma “is not represented at the political level” at the summit until it recovers “his democracy by a inclusive process “. In a joint communiqué, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway and Timor-Eastern expressed their “deep concern about the Critical situation in Burma “, calling the Junta to” participate constructively “in dialogue with the ASEAN Special Envoy.
The junta promised to organize elections and raise the state of emergency in 2023.