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Information Sheet No.B-10



Subject:  Information  Sheet          No.B-1034  (I)

                         MYANMAR INFORMATION COMMITTEE
                                                  YANGON

                                            Information  Sheet
                             
                       No.B-1034 (I)                               21st 
August, 1999

(1) Minister for Chittagong Hill Tracts Leave

    Minister for Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh Mr Kalpa Ranjan
Chakma and party left Yangon by air for Home at 10.30 am on 20 August.
The delegation was seen off at Yangon International Airport by Minister
and Deputy Ministers for Progress of Border Areas and National Races
and Development Affairs, Deputy Ministers and directors-general and
officials, Ambassador of Bangladesh and embassy staff.

(2)     RIPS of Japan, Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International
Studies Hold Seminar

    A seminar on the interaction between the five-member study mission
from Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS) of Japan and
Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies (Myanmar-ISIS)
was held at the meeting hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 20
August. The purpose of the study mission is to implement the two-year
research project on Myanmar and Cambodia with a view to examining the
impact of their entry into ASEAN. The seminar was chaired by member of
Myanmar-ISIS Director-General U Aye Lwin of ASEAN Affairs Department.
Leader of the mission Director of the Project Professor Mr Seki Tomoda
explained the purpose of the Study Mission, which was followed by
exchange of views.  After the seminar, the study mission called on
Chairman of Myanmar-ISIS Minister for Foreign Affairs.

(3)     MPF D-G Attends Myanmar-Thailand Meeting on Drugs Enforcement
Cooperation

    Secretary of Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) the
Myanmar Police Force Director-General and party attended the third
cross-border meeting on drugs enforcement cooperation of Myanmar
Thailand and UNDCP at the Royal Princess Hotel in Ranong, Thailand, on
17 and 18 August. The basic level Myanmar and Thailand third
cross-border meeting on drugs enforcement cooperation was held on 17
August, attended by Deputy Director Police Lt-Col Sit Aye and Myanmar
delegation and Drug Enforcement Bureau of Thailand Director Mr Sukhum
Opasniputh and members. On 18 August, Secretary of CCDAC and Myanmar
delegation, Secretary-General Mr Payont Pantsri and members of Drug
Enforcement Bureau of Thailand and drug enforcement adviser of UNDCP Mr
Yngve Danling attended the highranking officials meeting. The Myanmar
delegation arrived back Yangon via Kawthoung on 19 August.

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