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Work coordinated to host tenth NTO
- Subject: Work coordinated to host tenth NTO
- From: OKKAR66129@xxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 05:07:00
Subject: Work coordinated to host tenth NTO meeting
Work coordinated to host tenth NTO meeting
YANGON, 12 Aug-A coordination meeting on hosting the tenth National Tourism
Organizations Meeting of ASEAN member nations was held at the Strand Hotel
this afternoon, attended by Minister of Hotels and Tourism Maj-Gen Saw Lwin.
Also present at the meeting were officials of the Commander-in-Chief (Army)'
s Office, Yangon Command, Myanmar Police Force, the Directorate of Defence
Services Intelligence, departments and enterprises related to the tourism
sector and officials.
In his address, Minister Maj-Gen Saw Lwin said national tourism organization
of ASEAN member nations had hosted nine meetings with a view to promoting
cooperation among ASEAN member nations for the development of tourism.
NTO meeting to be held in Yangon on 25 and 26 August is the tenth. Before
becoming an ASEAN member, Myanmar, as an observer, attended the sixth NTO
meeting in Singapore for the first time.
The seventh NTO meeting was held together with the ASEAN Ministerial Tourism
Forum held in Cuba, the Philippines, in January 1998, and the Myanmar
delegation led by the Minister for Hotels and Tourism attended it.
The Myanmar delegation led by the director-general attended the eighth NTO
meeting held in Chiang-Rai, Thailand, in July, 1998.
The ninth NTO meeting was held together with ASEAN Ministerial Tourism Forum
in Singapore in January 1999, and the Myanmar delegation led by the minister
for hotels and tourism attended it.
Arrangements are being made to host the tenth NTO meeting at the Traders
Hotel in Yangon on 25 and 26 August.
According to the proposal of the ASEAN Secretariat, meetings on ASEAN
Communications Team for Tourism and ASEAN Task Force on Tourism Investment
will be held together with NTO meeting on 24 August.
The meeting is to be attended by representatives of ASEAN member nations as
well as representatives of ASEAN and ASEAN Promotion Centre in Tokyo. In
conclusion, the minister urged all to contribute to hosting of the meeting.
The meeting ended with concluding remarks by the minister.
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