Myanmar junta blames ‘foreign intervention’ for Asean summit exclusion

Myanmar’s military government has blamed “foreign intervention” for the rare exclusion of its junta leader from a regional leaders’ summit this month.Junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun told the BBC Burmese news service that the United States and representatives of the European Union had pressured other leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to exclude military leader Min Aung Hlaing from the summit, taking place October 26-28.“The foreign interventions can also be seen…