Countries from Southeast Asia are discussing not inviting Min Aung Hlaing, head of Myanmar’s military regime, to their leaders’ summit later this month, after the country failed to make progress on an agreed road map to restore peace, Aljazeera report.

The military’s failure to act on a five-point plan it agreed to in April with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was “tantamount to backtracking”, Erywan Yusof, the group’s special envoy to Myanmar, told a news conference on Wednesday.

Erywan, the second foreign minister of Brunei, ASEAN’s current chair, said the bloc was “deep in discussions” about not inviting the military government to participate in a virtual summit that is scheduled to start on October 26.