Senior General Than Shwe sends message of felicitations to Turkmenistan

YANGON, 27 Oct— Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency General Saparmyrat A Niyazov, President of the Republic of Turkmenistan, on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Turkmenistan, which falls on 27 October 2005.

Prime Minister sends message of felicitations to Turkmenistan

YANGON, 27 Oct— General Soe Win, Prime Minister of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency General Saparmyrat A Niyazov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkmenistan, on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Turkmenistan, which falls on 27 October 2005.

Foreign Minister sends message of felicitations to Turkmenistan

YANGON, 27 Oct— U Nyan Win, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of felicitations to His Excellency Mr Rashid Meredov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkmenistan, on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Turkmenistan, which falls on 27 October 2005.

Workshop on “Looking at Types and Approaches of International Cooperation to Myanmar”

YANGON, 26 Oct — The opening ceremony of the Workshop on the “Looking at Types and Approaches of International Cooperation to Myanmar” organized by Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) was held at Dusit Inya Lake Resort this morning.

Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs U Kyaw Thu made an opening speech and Secretary of Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies Ambassador U Nyunt Tin extended greetings.

It was also attended by deputy ministers, ambassadors, diplomatic corps, directors-general of the ministries collaborating with the UN agencies, officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and heads of the UN agencies.

In the first session of the workshop, the papers focus on activities of UN and UN agencies, collaboration implementation matters were presented.

In the second and third session, representatives of UNDP, WFP, UNICEF, UNHCR and UNODC continued to present papers and took part in the discussions.

In the evening, the UN Resident Coordinator Mr Charles James Petrie hosted dinner to those present. The workshop continue tomorrow.

Myanmar booth wins Best Exhibition Award at 2nd China-ASEAN Expo

YANGON, 26 Oct — The Myanmar delegation led by President of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry U Win Myint, Vice-President U Aung Lwin and U Thaung Tin, CEC U Tun Aung, Executives U Myo Thant and U Kyaw Kyaw Win participated in the 2nd China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit and 2nd China-ASEAN Expo held from 19 to 22 October in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the People’s Republic of China.

The UMFCCI President and party attended the opening ceremony of the 2nd China-ASEAN Expo on 19 October. At the Expo, the scale model of the wall of Mandalay Royal Palace was kept as the Myanmar booth. A total of 28 booths from 26 Myanmar companies were displayed at the exhibition.

Furthermore, Myanmar and Chinese entrepreneurs held comprehensive discussion on trade and investment sectors. At the meeting, UMFCCI and CCI Nanning signed the MoU and the two sides of entrepreneurs exchanged notes of the agreement.

At the Expo, Myanmar booth won the Best Exhibition Award presented by China-ASEAN Expo Organizing Committee.