Nine heads of state and a blue screen, crossed out with the word “Myanmar” (official name of Burma), for the missing person. The videoconference summit of the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean, bringing together ten countries) began on Tuesday, October 26 under the leadership of the Sultan of Brunei, while the Burmese putschist general Min Aung Hlaing was uninvited following a collective decision taken on October 15. It is a sign of the change of tone within this group that the Philippine Minister of Foreign Affairs, Teodoro Locsin, had described earlier this month as “a bunch of guys always agreeing with each other on things without. importance”.
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