Myanmar says it’s committed to ASEAN peace plan, despite general’s snub

ASEAN’s special envoy, Erywan Yusof of Brunei, had sought a meeting with ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but the military government said that was impossible because she was detained and charged with crimes.

Myanmar’s military rulers pledged on Sunday to cooperate “as much as possible” with a peace plan agreed with the , despite a stern rebuke of the regional bloc for excluding the ’s top commander from a summit this week.

In an announcement in the state media on Sunday, the junta said it upholds the principal of peaceful coexistence with other countries and would cooperate with the ASEAN in following a five-point “consensus” agreed in April, a plan backed by the West and China.