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PROPAGANDA NEWS - Myanmar Military
- Subject: PROPAGANDA NEWS - Myanmar Military
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- Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 19:07:00
Subject: PROPAGANDA NEWS - Myanmar Military Official on Questions Raised by
Japan
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Myanmar Military Official on Questions Raised by Japan
Xinhua
08-FEB-99
Times
YANGON (Feb. 8) XINHUA - The state-run New
Light of Myanmar newspaper Monday carried
excerpts from an interview made by the Japan
Times newspaper with Brigadier General Kyaw Win,
a high ranking Myanmar military official who visited
Japan last month at the invitation of the Japanese
government.
Kyaw Win, deputy chief of the Office of Strategic
Studies of Myanmar Defense Ministry and deputy
director of the Defense Services Intelligence,
toured Japan for nine days from January 20 to 28.
Asked about his views on the policy of sanctions on
Myanmar by the United States and European
industrialized countries, Kyaw Win commented that
the policy is not very practical and realistic, saying
that without a strong economy and basic
infrastructure, transformation from one political
system to another, especially from one-party
socialist system into a multi-party political system,
will not be possible.
On Japanese policy towards Myanmar, he praised it
as a practical one, reasoning that sanctions,
boycott and embargo do not help the country's
transition to a democracy.
He said Myanmar does not have any specific
requests to Japan which used to be one of the
biggest donors in the past, believing that Japan may
be able to extend assistance for education and
other social sectors despite the fact that Japan
cannot provide fresh official development aid to the
country for various reasons.
Regarding the international accusation that the
Myanmar government is involved in narcotics
trafficking, he said Myanmar can challenge the
world to show it evidence of its involvement, saying
that "we are doing more than our share to solve the
narcotics problem because we are one of few
governments in the world that is doing much
anti-narcotics activities without any outside
assistance."
On Chine-Myanmar ties, he said that the two
countries have developed a good relationship as
China is among countries that have assisted and
supported Myanmar when it was facing time of
difficulties from 1988 onward.