PHNOM PENH: Myanmar‘s junta leader has not been invited to a regional summit next month, host Cambodia said on Wednesday, in a fresh diplomatic snub for the isolated military regime.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has led diplomatic efforts to resolve the turmoil that has gripped Myanmar since the military seized power on Feb. 1, 2021, and ousted the elected government of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung Sang Suu Kyi.

But there has been little progress on a “five-point consensus” agreed upon with the junta, and its leader and ministers have been shut out of recent meetings of the 10-member regional bloc.

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Besides Cambodia and Myanmar, other Asean members are Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Linking the invitation to “progress in the implementation of the five-point consensus,” a Cambodian Foreign Ministry spokesman said the junta had been invited to “nominate a nonpolitical representative for the upcoming Asean summits.”

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This means junta chief Min Aung Hlaing would not be allowed to attend, just as his top diplomat was barred from foreign ministers’ gatherings in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh in February and August.

The five-point plan, agreed in April last year, calls for an immediate end to violence and dialogue between the military and the anti-coup movement.

There is growing dissatisfaction within the bloc — sometimes criticized as a toothless talking shop — at the Myanmar generals’ stonewalling.

The junta’s execution of four prisoners in July — including Phyo Zeya Thaw, an ex-legislator from Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party — in defiance of widespread international calls for clemency, caused further anger.

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August’s meeting of Asean foreign ministers ended with a rare condemnation of the junta’s actions.

The ministers said they were “deeply disappointed by the limited progress in and lack of commitment of the Naypyitaw authorities to the timely and complete implementation of the five-point consensus.”

Asean’s own special envoy to Myanmar, Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn — who was tasked with brokering peace — has admitted the scale of the task, saying “even Superman cannot solve” the crisis.

The regional bloc’s snub comes as Washington attempts to exert more pressure on the junta through the United Nations, following outrage over an air strike that killed 11 schoolchildren last month.

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United States State Department counselor Derek Chollet held talks with other governments and with representatives of the self-declared National Unity Government — dominated by the NLD — during the UN General Assembly earlier this month.

Myanmar is planning fresh elections next August, but Chollet warned there was “no chance” they could be free and fair.

The junta has justified its power grab pointing to alleged fraud in the 2020 elections, which the NLD easily won.

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A military crackdown on dissent in the wake of the coup has left more than 2,300 civilians dead, according to a local monitoring group.

The junta, meanwhile, says the uprising against its rule has left almost 3,900 of its supporters dead.