VIENTIANE: Myanmar will send a representative to a regional summit this week for the first time in three years, a diplomatic source told AFP on Tuesday (Oct 8), as the ruling junta struggles to quell a civil war. The conflict will be high on the agenda as leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meet in Laos on Wednesday, though more than three years of efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis have had no impact. ASEAN barred Myanmar junta leaders from its