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Myanmar, UNICEF Review Country Cooperation Program

            Xinhua
            01-JUL-98

            YANGON (July 2) XINHUA - A mid-term meeting of
            the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) and its Myanmar
            partner agencies is being held here to review their
            country program of cooperation for 1996-2000. 

            The two-day meeting, which began Wednesday,
            reviewed the progress made in health and nutrition,
            the official newspaper The New Light of Myanmar
            reported Thursday. 

            The four-year Myanmar-UNICEF country
            cooperation program, which has been under
            implementation since 1996 with 56 million U.S.
            dollars in assistance from the UNICEF, covers
            health, development of nutrition, water and
            sanitation, basic education, early childhood
            development and child rights. 

            The projects are being undertaken by the five
            Myanmar ministries of health, agriculture and
            irrigation, education, social welfare relief and
            resettlement, and national planning and economic
            development in cooperation with the UNICEF. 

            Attending the meeting are ministers of related
            Myanmar ministries, heads of government
            departments, ambassadors, officials of the UNICEF
            and representatives of other U.N. agencies. 

            The last annual Myanmar-UNICEF review meeting
            was held in November 1997.