ASEAN wants the United Nations to drop a call to suspend arms sales to the Myanmar military, RFA reported quoting a European diplomat who told BenarNews.

In a letter to core countries sponsoring a draft U.N. General Assembly resolution on Myanmar, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – minus regional bloc member Myanmar – asked them to omit a sentence that calls for “an immediate suspension” of sales or transfers of all military weapons and munitions to Naypyidaw, said a diplomat from Liechtenstein, which co-sponsored the document.

A high-ranking official from one of the resolution’s sponsor-countries, meanwhile, told BenarNews that ASEAN wanted the draft revised because the bloc believes it should take the lead in resolving the crisis in Myanmar, where more than 800 people have been killed in post-coup violence.