16 Aug

DR WIN MYAT AYE, Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, held separate meetings with Indian Ambassador Mr Saurabh Kumar and a delegation from the ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center (ARMAC) at his ministry yesterday.

During the meeting with the Ambassador, they discussed how India’s government is cooperating with the Ministry of Industry to conduct industrial skill-related courses to local residents in Pakokku and Myingyan, organizing similar short-term and longterm courses in Rakhine State, and the implementation of the five-year collaboration project between Myanmar and India to develop Rakhine State with a budget of US$5 million per year.

During the meeting with ARMAC, they discussed MoSWRR’s assistance in future projects, the ministry’s current awareness campaigns on the dangers of landmines, providing aid and rehabilitation assistance to landmine victims, and cooperating with ARMAC on landmine-related tasks during the resettlement phase of the national-level strategy to close down IDP camps. —MNA (Translated by Zaw Htet)