Myanmar news Highlights 19-Jun-2010

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IAEA
The New Lights of Myanmar - As regards allegations against Myanmar on nuclear programmes,
Resident Representative of Myanmar to IAEA, Ambassador U Tin Win sends reply to Director Mr.
Marco Marzo of Division of Operations A, Department of Safeguards, IAEA
Aljazeera - High cost of Myanmar's isolation (Video)
Xinhua - Myanmar exposes 237 drug-related cases in May
Xinhua - Myanmar, Iran to promote economic cooperation
VNS - VN, Myanmar promote tourism

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As regards allegations against Myanmar on nuclear programmes, Resident Representative

Representative of
Myanmar to IAEA,
IAEA, Ambassador U Tin Win sends reply to Director Mr. Marco Marzo of Division of
Operations A, Department of Safeguards, IAEA

No activity related to nuclear programme has been carried out in the past, is ongoing or is planned for
the future in Myanmar

NAY PYI TAW, 18 June As regards the allegations against Myanmar in connection with nuclear
programmes, Director Mr. Marco Marzo of Division of Operations A, Department of Safeguards,
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sent a letter dated 14 June to U Tin Win, Resident
Representative of Myanmar to IAEA and Ambassador of Myanmar to the Federal Republic of Germany.

The letter requested Myanmar to inform the Agency as to whether any activities related to uranium
conversion, enrichment, or reactor construction or operation has been carried out in the past, is ongoing
or is planned for the future in the country as claimed by the Al Jazeera documentary. Ambassador U Tin
Win sent a reply letter today to Mr. Marco Marzo. The letter stated that the allegations made by the
international media against Myanmar regarding the nuclear programme are groundless and unfounded;
that no activity related to uranium conversion, enrichment, reactor construction or operation has
been carried out in the past, is ongoing or is planned for the future in Myanmar; that Myanmar is a party
to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has signed the Safeguards Agreement in connection
with the NPT and the Protocol thereto in 1995; that as stated in its Safeguards Agreement with the
IAEA, Myanmar will notify the Agency if it plans to carry out any of the aforementioned nuclear
activities.MNA
Source: The New Lights of Myanmar, 19-Jun-2010

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High cost of Myanmar's isolation

Saturday, June 19, 2010
Noeleen Heyzer, the UN undersecretary-general, who has led an unprecedented
dialogue with Myanmar's leaders about how to move the country forward, talks to Al
Jazeera's Veronica Pedrosa.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/06/201061942627329509.html

Myanmar exposes 237 drug-

drug-related cases in May
14:37, June 19, 2010

Myanmar exposed 237 drug-related cases, punishing 395 culprits including 85 women, in May this year,
according to a monthly statistics by the anti-drug authorities Saturday. Of the total, heroin cases topped
the list with 83 while those of stimulant tablets 65, opium 26 and marijuana 20. During the month, the
authorities seized 101.79 kilograms of opium, 2.46 kg of heroin, 4.2 kg of marijuana and 1.9 kg of Ice as
well as over 166,000 stimulant tablets, the sources said. In the previous month, the country exposed a
total of 241 narcotic-drug-related cases, taking action against 374 people including 59 women. During
last year's poppy cultivation season, a total of 4,138 hectares of poppy plantations in the country were
destroyed, according to statistical report. Myanmar has been implementing a 15-year plan (1999-2014)
to totally eradicate poppy in three phases, each running for five years, and it has now entered into the
final five-year phase of the plan.

Source: Xinhua

Myanmar, Iran to promote economic cooperation

June 18, 2010

Myanmar and Iran will work to promote economic cooperation through the establishment of bilateral
consultations between the foreign ministries of the two countries, said the official newspaper New Light
of Myanmar Friday. The memorandum of understanding on the establishment was reached during a
three-day visit to Myanmar by Iranian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Ali Fathollahi from
Tuesday to Thursday, the report said. Besides meeting with Myanmar Foreign Minister U Nyan Win
during his visit, Fathollahi discussed with Myanmar Energy Minister U Lun Thi on cooperation in the oil
and gas sector and held a bilateral meeting with his Myanmar counterpart U Maung Myint, exchanging

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views on mutually beneficial cooperation, it said. The two sides reiterated their desire to further expand
the ties of friendship and economic cooperation as well as to increase cooperation in the regional and
international forums such as the United Nations and Non-Aligned Movement, it said. The two sides also
agreed to increase contacts between chambers of commerce and industry of the two countries in order
to promote trade and economic cooperation, the report added. In March this year, Myanmar Deputy
Foreign Minister U Maung Myint visited Iran and held a bilateral meeting with his Iranian counterpart on
enhancing friendship and cooperation.

Source: Xinhua

VN, Myanmar promote tourism

June, 17 2010

HA NOI A tourism promotion seminar was recently held in the former Myanmar capital of Yangon,
according to the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism. Participants in the seminar introduced
some of the strengths in tourism of each country, including eco-tourism and religious tourism in
Myanmar, and beach resorts in Viet Nam. They also discussed ways to diversify tours, lower prices,
increase service quality and lure more visitors. The delegates also discussed ways of overcome
difficulties relating to visas, language, electronic payments and credit cards, and the establishment of
tourism entities in Myanmar. Myanmar's Minister of Hotels and Tourism, Soe Naing, said that country
was willing to co-operate with Viet Nam to remove barriers for mutual benefit and support tourism
enterprises.

Vietnam Airlines launched its first direct flight from Ha Noi to Yangon in March. The new service, using a
Fokker 70 aircraft, includes four flights a week, expected to increase to five per week later this year,
when a HCM City-Yangon route would also begin service. U Phyoe Wai Yar Zar, vice chairman of the
Myanmar Marketing Committee, predicted the new routes would boost Myanmar's tourist arrivals. "It will
also increase connectivity with the member states of ASEAN and potentially boost arrivals from third
countries," he said. Tony Pham Ha, the owner and chief executive of Ha Noi-based Luxury Travel, said
his company had already received a number of bookings for package tours to Myanmar.

"Luxury Travel is one of the first companies in Viet Nam to promote tours to Myanmar and develop niche
tourism products for both Vietnamese and Western travelers who want to discover this mystical land
from Ha Noi," Ha said. "We are also working with tour operators and travel agents from Myanmar to

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promote Viet Nam," he added. "We would like them to do a familiarisation trip to see the highlights of
our country the cities, beaches and world heritage sites, such as Ha Long Bay." According to the
Myanmar tourism authority, the country attracted nearly 1,900 Vietnamese travellers in 2009, up from
more than 1,000 in 2008. VNS

Source: http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Life-Style/200618/VN-Myanmar-promote-tourism.html

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