Exclusive-ASEAN states object as China lobbies for Myanmar junta to join summit: sources

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By Tom Allard and Rozanna Latiff (Reuters) – A Chinese envoy has lobbied Southeast Asian nations to let Myanmar’s military ruler attend a regional summit being hosted by China’s president next week but has met stiff opposition, diplomatic sources said on Thursday. Myanmar’s standing as a member of the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been thrown into the spotlight by a Feb. 1 coup, when its military ousted the elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking bloody turmoil. Several ASEAN members, dismayed by the return of crisis and the suppression o…

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