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.
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.