Senior General Than Shwe sends message of sympathy to India

YANGON, 10 Oct— Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of sympathy to His Excellency Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, President of the Republic of India on the loss of lives and property caused by devastating earthquake in India on 8 October, 2005.

Senior General Than Shwe sends message of sympathy to Pakistan

YANGON, 10 Oct— Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of sympathy to His Excellency General Pervez Musharraf, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the loss of lives and property caused by devastating earthquake in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 8 October, 2005.

 

Senior General Than Shwe receives Malaysian Foreign Minister

YANGON, 10 Oct—Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Senior General Than Shwe received Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar bin Syed Jaafar Albar and party, who are on a goodwill visit to Myanmar, at the Credentials Hall of the Pyithu Hluttaw Building on Pyay Road here at 4 pm today.

Also present on the occasion were Vice-Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, member of the State Peace and Development Council General Thura Shwe Mann, Prime Minister General Soe Win, Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Thein Sein, Minister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win, Director-General of the State Peace and Development Council Office Col Kyaw Kyaw Win and Director-General of Protocol Department Thura U Aung Htet.

The guests were accompanied by Chargé d’ Affaires of Malaysian Embassy to Myanmar Mr Rizany Irwan bin Muhamad Mazlan.

 

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye sends message of sympathy to India

YANGON, 10 Oct— Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, Vice-Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of sympathy to His Excellency Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, Vice-President of the Republic of India, on the loss of lives and property caused by devastating earthquake in India, on 8 October, 2005.

 

Prime Minister sends message of sympathy to India

YANGON, 10 Oct— General Soe Win, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of sympathy to His Excellency Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of the Republic of India, on the loss of lives and property caused by devastating earthquake in India, on 8 October, 2005.

 

Prime Minister sends message of sympathy to Pakistan

YANGON, 10 Oct— General Soe Win, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of sympathy to His Excellency Mr Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, on the loss of lives and property caused by devastating earthquake in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, on 8 October, 2005.

 

Malaysian FM calls on Prime Minister General Soe Win

YANGON, 10 Oct — Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar General Soe Win received visiting Minister of the Foreign Affairs of Malaysia HE Datuk Seri Hamid Albar bin Syed Jaafar Albar and party at Zeyathiri Beikman at Konmyinttha here this afternoon.

Also present at the call were Minister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win, Deputy Minister U Maung Myint, Director-General of the Prime Minister’s Office Col Thant Shin, Director-General of the Protocol Department Thura U Aung Htet, Mr Rizany Irwan Bin Muhamad Mazlan, Charge d’ Affaires a i of Malaysian Embassy, and officials.

 

Foreign Minister sends message of sympathy to India

YANGON, 10 Oct— His Excellency U Nyan Win, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of sympathy to His Excellency Mr K Natwar Singh, Minister of External Affairs of the Republic of India on the loss of lives and property caused by devastating earthquake in India on 8 October 2005.

Foreign Minister sends message of sympathy to Pakistan

YANGON, 10 Oct— His Excellency U Nyan Win, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of sympathy to His Excellency Mr Mian Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the loss of lives and property caused by devastating earthquake in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 8 October.

 

USDA Secretary-General receives British Ambassador and Head of Myanmar Division

YANGON, 10 Oct — Secretary-General of Union Solidarity and Deve-lopment Association U Htay Oo received British Ambassador Ms Victoria Jane Bowman and Head of Myanmar Division of Foreign and Common- Wealth office, Britain Mr Michael Ryder at his office in Bahan Township this morning.

Present at the meeting were Joint Secretary-General U Zaw Min and secretaries of Kachin, Kaya, and Shan (North) States.

They discussed the purpose and tasks of USDA, fundamental rules, social organizations, tasks being carried out, the plans to develop the rural areas and to light urban areas with electricity.

Next, the queries of Mr Michael Ryder were answered.

 

Energy Minister attends meeting on energy of BIMSTEC member countries

YANGON, 10 Oct — The Myanmar delegation led by Minister for Energy Brig-Gen Lun Thi attended the high-ranking officials’ meeting on energy and energy ministers’ meeting of BIMSTEC member countries held in New Delhi, India, on 3 and 4 October.

The meetings were attended by high-ranking officials and energy ministers of BIMSTEC member countries such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand, and they discussed matters related to energy cooperation. At the fist day session of the meeting, Myanmar read out the paper on energy cooperation between the member countries and participated in discussions with the member countries concerning the draft of the Declaration of First BIMSTEC Ministers’ Conference and Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation in BIMSTEC.

At the energy ministers’ meeting of BIMSTEC member countries held on 4 October, Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi said Myanmar became a member of BIMSTEC from its inception in 1997. As a leading member, Myanmar has made more active cooperation in energy sector. Holding the meetings on energy will contribute to further collaboration between the member counties and resolutions of future work programmes. Next he explained measures being taken for energy cooperation.

Next, the ministers of other member countries made speeches and agreement was reached between the countries on energy cooperation.

On 4 October, Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi received Secretary of Indian Ministry of Oil and Natural Gas Mr S Tritaphi and party and officials of Power Gird Corporation of India Ltd, National Thermal Power Corporation, the Sum Group, Esserr Oil Ltd and Adani Group, and they discussed energy cooperation matters.

The Myanmar delegation led by Minister Brig-Gen Lun Thi arrived back here by air. They were welcomed back at the airport by Minister for Industry-2 Maj-Gen Saw Lwin, Minister for Electric Power Maj-Gen Tin Htut, Deputy Energy Minister Brig-Gen Than Htay and officials.

 

Malaysian goodwill delegation arrives

YANGON, 10 Oct — At the invitation of U Nyan Win, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar, a Malaysian goodwill delegation led by HE Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar bin Syed Jaafir Albar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia and Datin arrived here by air this morning on an official visit to the Union of Myanmar.

They were welcomed at Yangon International Airport by U Nyan Win, Minister for Foreign Affairs and wife, responsible officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Rizany Irwan Bin Muhammad Mazlan, Charge d’ Affaires ai and staff members of the Malaysian Embassy in Yangon.

The goodwill delegation led by Malaysian Foreign Minister comprises HE Dato Mohammad Rastam Isa, Deputy Secretary General I and other high ranking officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia.