Nov 19, 2011 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) — Bangladesh would request Myanmar [Burma] to take back its Rohingya refugees and undocumented nationals, a senior official at the Prime Minister’s Office told New Age Thursday [17 November].
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would request her Myanmar counterpart during her visit to the neighbouring country in the first week of December, the official said.
On December 5, Hasina leaves for Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar to pay a three-day official visit at the invitation from her counterpart U Thein Sein.
Diplomatic observers expect that her visit would ease the strained relations between the two neighbouring countries.
Myanmar agreed to take back its Rohingya population living in Bangladesh, foreign secretary Mohamed Mijarul Quayes said on 5 October.
Besides at least 28,000 Myanmar refugees about 200,000 to 500,000 more of its undocumented people are in Bangladesh.
Quayes said Bangladesh expects ‘moral and political support’ from the international community in repatriating the refugees and undocumented nationals of Myanmar to their country.
He said that the Myanmar government was positive about taking back all their refugee and undocumented nationals when Bangladesh raised the issue at the annual bilateral foreign office consultations. He, however, made it clear, ‘There is no scope for repatriation unless the refugees voluntarily go back home.’
Close to 250,000 Rihingyas fled the Arakan province of Myanmar to cross into Bangladesh after a wave of oppression was unleashed on them in Myanmar in 1991. Myanmar took back more than 200,000 of them earlier. Subsequently, more Myanmar nationals were forced into Bangladesh.
Officials said Sheikh Hasina would discuss trade and issues relating to border, connectivity and energy during the visit. The two-way trade is worth about $65 million a year, according to official statistics.
Major items of export from Bangladesh to Myanmar, includes steel products, light engineering machinery, cement, dry food, and cosmetics.
It imports from Myanmar mainly fish, timber, spices, synthetic foot wears and pickles.
A 320-km land boundary, the two neighbours share, is not free from trouble. The midstream of the river Naaf defines a part of the common border. The two countries also await resolution of their maritime dispute.
Myanmar is the only country other than India with which Bangladesh shares a common land boundary.
Source: New Age website, Dhaka, in English 19 Nov 11
China, Myanmar to enhance military ties
English.news.cn 2011-11-28 19:35:06 FeedbackPrintRSS
Chen Bingde (R), chief of the General Staff of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), shakes hands with Myanmar’s Commander of the Armed Forces Min Aung Hlaing in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 28, 2011. (Xinhua/Zhang Duo)
BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) — A senior Chinese military official said Monday that China cherishes friendly relations with Myanmar and hopes to enhance their military relationship.
Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), made the remarks while meeting with Myanmar’s Commander of the Armed Forces Min Aung Hlaing.
Hailing the China-Myanmar friendly relationship, Chen said bilateral relations have developed well through the joint efforts of both sides.
Chen said the two militaries have expanded pragmatic and effective cooperation in a wide range of fields in recent years, such as high-level visits, personnel training, frontier defense and equipment cooperation.
“As developing countries, both China and Myanmar need a peaceful and stable surrounding environment,” Chen said.
Chen also proposed the two military forces enhance mutual trust and deepen cooperation.
Min Aung Hlaing reiterated that Myanmar will firmly adhere to the one-China policy and expressed appreciation for China’s support for Myanmar’s military development,saying that Myanmar hopes to enhance its comprehensive, strategic partnership with China.
“At a time when US qualifications as the leader of the world’s free-market economies look more and more dubious, China’s uninterrupted economic growth will become a strong source of soft power in and by itself, as more and more countries begin to look at China as the world’s growth engine. ”
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Thanlwinoo
December 1, 2011 at 4:20 pm
အလုပ်အားတုန်း အမြန်တင်လိုက်ရလို့ Sorry ပါ သူကြီးခင်ဗျား..။
အောက်က Post သတင်းနှင့် တွဲဖက်ပါရန် အနူးအညွတ်တောင်းပန်ပါတယ်…။
kai
December 1, 2011 at 4:24 pm
Bangladesh PM to visit Burma on 5 December
Posted 11/20/2011 08:57 AM ET
Nov 19, 2011 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) — Bangladesh would request Myanmar [Burma] to take back its Rohingya refugees and undocumented nationals, a senior official at the Prime Minister’s Office told New Age Thursday [17 November].
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would request her Myanmar counterpart during her visit to the neighbouring country in the first week of December, the official said.
On December 5, Hasina leaves for Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar to pay a three-day official visit at the invitation from her counterpart U Thein Sein.
Diplomatic observers expect that her visit would ease the strained relations between the two neighbouring countries.
Myanmar agreed to take back its Rohingya population living in Bangladesh, foreign secretary Mohamed Mijarul Quayes said on 5 October.
Besides at least 28,000 Myanmar refugees about 200,000 to 500,000 more of its undocumented people are in Bangladesh.
Quayes said Bangladesh expects ‘moral and political support’ from the international community in repatriating the refugees and undocumented nationals of Myanmar to their country.
He said that the Myanmar government was positive about taking back all their refugee and undocumented nationals when Bangladesh raised the issue at the annual bilateral foreign office consultations. He, however, made it clear, ‘There is no scope for repatriation unless the refugees voluntarily go back home.’
Close to 250,000 Rihingyas fled the Arakan province of Myanmar to cross into Bangladesh after a wave of oppression was unleashed on them in Myanmar in 1991. Myanmar took back more than 200,000 of them earlier. Subsequently, more Myanmar nationals were forced into Bangladesh.
Officials said Sheikh Hasina would discuss trade and issues relating to border, connectivity and energy during the visit. The two-way trade is worth about $65 million a year, according to official statistics.
Major items of export from Bangladesh to Myanmar, includes steel products, light engineering machinery, cement, dry food, and cosmetics.
It imports from Myanmar mainly fish, timber, spices, synthetic foot wears and pickles.
A 320-km land boundary, the two neighbours share, is not free from trouble. The midstream of the river Naaf defines a part of the common border. The two countries also await resolution of their maritime dispute.
Myanmar is the only country other than India with which Bangladesh shares a common land boundary.
Source: New Age website, Dhaka, in English 19 Nov 11
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kai
December 1, 2011 at 4:27 pm
China, Myanmar to enhance military ties
English.news.cn 2011-11-28 19:35:06 FeedbackPrintRSS
Chen Bingde (R), chief of the General Staff of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), shakes hands with Myanmar’s Commander of the Armed Forces Min Aung Hlaing in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 28, 2011. (Xinhua/Zhang Duo)
BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) — A senior Chinese military official said Monday that China cherishes friendly relations with Myanmar and hopes to enhance their military relationship.
Chen Bingde, chief of the General Staff of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), made the remarks while meeting with Myanmar’s Commander of the Armed Forces Min Aung Hlaing.
Hailing the China-Myanmar friendly relationship, Chen said bilateral relations have developed well through the joint efforts of both sides.
Chen said the two militaries have expanded pragmatic and effective cooperation in a wide range of fields in recent years, such as high-level visits, personnel training, frontier defense and equipment cooperation.
“As developing countries, both China and Myanmar need a peaceful and stable surrounding environment,” Chen said.
Chen also proposed the two military forces enhance mutual trust and deepen cooperation.
Min Aung Hlaing reiterated that Myanmar will firmly adhere to the one-China policy and expressed appreciation for China’s support for Myanmar’s military development,saying that Myanmar hopes to enhance its comprehensive, strategic partnership with China.
မိုက်ကယ်ဂျော်နီအောင်ပု
December 1, 2011 at 4:48 pm
လက်ရှိမြန်မာပြည်ရဲ့ အခြေနေလောက်နဲ့ ဒီလိုထိပ်တန်းခေါင်းဆောင်တစ်ယောက်
မြန်မာပြည်ကိုလာတယ်ဆိုတာ တော်တော်ထူးဆန်းတယ်
သေခြာတာကတော့ အာရှာမှာ တရုပ်တွေဩဇာလွှမ်းမိုးတာကို
အမေရိကန်တွေအနေနဲ့ မြန်မာပြည်ကနေ ချည်းကပ်ခြင်နေတာ
အိန္ဒြေပျက်လောက်အောင် ဖြစ်နေတာ တော်တော်ထင်ရှားတယ်
အံ့ဩစရာကောင်းတာက ဘယ်သူမှ ဒီလိုမမြင်တာ ကိုပါ ပြောသာပြောရတာ
ကိုယ်တစ်ယောက်တည်းက အူကြောင်ကြောင်တွေးမိတာလားသိဘူး
ဗီယက်နာမ်လိုဖြစ်ဘို့တော့ မထင် ( လုံးလုံးကိုမထင် )
စစ်အုပ်စုတွေ ဖွဲ့စည်ပုံထဲမှာ ခြေကုတ်ယူထားတာရယ်
စစ်အုပ်စုနဲ့ အာဏာရှင်တွေ မြန်မာ့ အခြေခံလုပ်ငန်းတွေကို မောင်ပိုင်စီးထားတာရယ်နဲ့
ညှိကြည့်တာ
ဒီကြားထဲ NLD က အခုမှ တစ်ကယ့်အကြပ်အတည်းထဲကိုရောက်နေပြီလို့တောင်မြင်တယ်
ဘယ်လို အုပ်စုခွဲပြစ်မလဲဆိုတာ တွေးကြပေတော့ဗျို့
သတင်းစာရှင်းလင်းပွဲကိုတော့ စောင့်ရမှာဘဲ
ထုံးစံအတိုင်း ကြေနပ်စရာကောင်းပါတယ်ဘာတယ် ညာတယ်
ဥရောပတွက် ဘယ်လို ရင်းနှီးမြုပ်နှံကြမယ်
မအေလိုးတွေ ဘယ်လို ထွက်ပေါက်ရမယ် ဒါဘဲ ဒါဘဲ
Thanlwinoo
December 1, 2011 at 4:48 pm
ကျွန်တော်တို့ နိုင်ငံမှာ စစ်ကြောင့် (ပြည်တွင်းစစ်၊ စစ်အာဏာရှင်၊ စစ်အသုံးစရိတ်) တွေကြောင့် တိုင်းပြည်ချိနဲ့အားနည်းခဲ့ရပါတယ်..။
လက်ရှိကမ္ဘာ့ပထဝီနိုင်ငံရေးအရ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ အရေးပါတဲ့အနေအထားကို အသုံးချပြီး ကိုယ့်နိုင်ငံ၊ ကိုယ့်ပြည်သူတွေ အကျိုးအတွက် အကောင်းဆုံးလုပ်ဆောင်ဖို့ ကျွန်တော်တို့အားလုံးမှာ တာဝန်ရှိပါတယ်..။
three colors
December 1, 2011 at 5:19 pm
ဒီလောက်ကောင်းတဲ့အခွင့်အရေး ကို ဖမ်းမဆုပ်နိုင်ရင်တော့ သွားပေတော့ နောက်နှစ်(၂၀)။
တရုပ် အားကိုးနေရင် နိုင်ငံ နာရုံပဲ။
ပေါ ်ပြူလာဂျာနယ် ုမှာကြံ့ဖွံ က အရူးတယောက်တယောက်က-အမေရိကန် ကူကူမကူကူ၊ တို့ကတော့ တိုးတက်အောင် လုပ်နိုင်တဲ့ပုံ ပြောသေးတယ်၊လုပ်ကြည့်စမ်းပါဦး၊
ကိုယ့်ကို sanction ဖြုတ်ပေးမဲ့သူကိုဒီလိုကြိုတာ မမှူဘူးဆိုချင်တာ လား??
ကြောင်လတ်
December 1, 2011 at 10:58 pm
ကျနော်ကတော့ ကောင်းတာလေးတွေဖြစ်လာပါစေလို့ပဲ မျက်စေ့စုံမှိတ်ပြီးဆုတောင်းနေပါတယ်။
ဆုတောင်းတိုင်းသာ ပြည့် စေချင်ပါသည်………
(သီချင်းဆိုတာပါ။)
myatthwin62
December 2, 2011 at 1:21 pm
“At a time when US qualifications as the leader of the world’s free-market economies look more and more dubious, China’s uninterrupted economic growth will become a strong source of soft power in and by itself, as more and more countries begin to look at China as the world’s growth engine. ”
http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/686680/US-shift-prompts-Beijing-to-grip-new-Asian-realpolitik.aspx