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Asean summit to make hard decisions about Myanmar

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Like on previous occasions over the year, Myanmar will likely not be represented at this summit.

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BANGKOK - The Nov 11 Asean summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, will be crunch time for the bloc’s leaders.

The 10-nation bloc has been grappling in vain with Myanmar’s political and humanitarian crisis for almost two years. It now has to decide how to respond to this impasse, and this response may ultimately reshape the consensus-driven grouping.

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