Symposium on Mobilization of Financ

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Subject: Symposium on Mobilization of Financial Resources for Development in Myanmar Begins

SOURCE: Information  Sheet  No.B-1186(I)  18th December 1999
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Symposium on Mobilization of Financial Resources for Development in 
Myanmar Begins

    The Symposium on Mobilization of Financial Resources for Development in 
Myanmar jointly sponsored by Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International
Studies and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), with the 
support of Sasakawa Peace Foundation (Japan) was held at the Ministry of 
Foreign
Affairs on 17 December. Present on the occasion were Deputy Minister for 
Foreign Affairs officials of Sasakawa Peace Foundation of Japan and Institute 
of
Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), Ambassadors of ASEAN countries and 
embassy staff, the Japanese Ambassador and staff, officials of National AFTA 
Unit,
departmentals officials, scholars from universities, officials of the Union 
of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, private banks, 
research paper writers from Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, 
Singapore and Myanmar. On behalf of Minister for Foreign affairs and Minister 
for Finance and Revenue, Director-General of ASEAN Affairs Department and 
Governor of Central Bank of
Myanmar and Director Prof. Chia Siow Yue of ISEAS extended greetings. 
Chairman of Sasakawa Peace Foundation Mr.Setsuya Tabuchi presented a paper on
Internationalization of Yen. Before this symposium, the Workshop on 
Mobilization of Financial Resources for Development in Myanmar was held in 
Singapore from
29 to 30 October 1998 as a first phase for the whole research project. The 
present symposium is the final phase of the research project. Myanmar 
participants
from Institute of Economics,Central Bank of Myanmar Ministry of Finance and 
Revenue presented papers on the first-day symposium together with participants
from Japan and Singapore. The second-day of the symposium continues today.
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