Japanese MPs in Rangoon

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Burma-Japan : Japanese MPs in Rangoon

BANGKOK, April 29 (AFP) - Visiting members of the Japanese upper house held 
talks Tuesday in Rangoon with leading Burmese military junta members, 
state-run Radio Rangoon reported in a dispatch monitored here.

Six Japanese legislators led by Ichiyo Ishikawa called separately on Burmese 
military junta's powerful secretary general, Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt and 
National Planning and Economic Development Minister Brigadier General David 
Abel, the report said.

They discussed bilateral relations and economic cooperation between the two 
countries as well as the foreign investment situation in Burma, it said.

David Abel also explained the development of junta's economic reform program 
and bilateral trade between Burma and its neighbouring countries, according to 
the radio.