ManilaFive Southeast Asian states have hosted Min Aung Hlaing this year.

Leaders meeting here from 15 November will review a five-year ban on Myanmar’s leaders.

The ban rests on Myanmar’s failure to implement the Five-Point Consensus, the peace plan agreed after the 2021 coup.

“Political acceptance should follow progress, not precede it,” said Simon Tay, chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.

Thailand wants Myanmar’s foreign minister readmitted to ministerial talks, with a decision by 2028 at the latest.

How each outlet framed it
Dawn
frames the Myanmar ban as eroding through bilateral visits, noting Thailand now openly calls for restrictions to be eased

Sources: Dawn