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"DEPUTY MINISTER
for Social Welfare, Relief
and Resettlement U Soe
Aung headed UN Secretary-
General’s Special
Envoy on Myanmar Ms
Christine Schraner Burgener
and Rakhine State
government officials to
Maungtaw Township yesterday
morning.
The Deputy Minister,
the Special Envoy and party
held talks with Head of
Maungtaw District General
Administration Department
U Soe Aung and
District Police Lt-Col Aung
Myint Htay about development
of Maungtaw areas
in one-year period, peace
and stability of the area
and matters related to the
returnees.
They also met with
ethnic locals, Muslim people
and Hindu community
who are living harmoniously
in Maungtaw Township
to ask about their living
conditions, livelihoods
and assistance of the government.
Then, they talked with
the returnees from the other
country. At the meeting,
the Special Envoy asked
about their living and difficulties,
government supports
and their difficulties
while they were taking
shelters in the other country.
She also privately met
with women from the fled
families.
In the afternoon, the
Deputy Minister and party
arrived back to Sittway by
the military helicopter.
The Special Envoy
and party held talks with
Rakhine State Hluttaw
Speaker U San Kyaw
Hla and Deputy Speaker
U Mya Than at the Hluttaw
about IDPs, ceasefire
talks, possibility of more
returnee arrivals, views on
2020 General Election and
holding elections in Rakine
State..."
Source/publisher:
Myanmar Ministry of Information via "The Global New Light of Myanmar"
Date of Publication:
2019-11-19
Date of entry:
2019-11-19
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- Individual Documents
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Countries:
Myanmar
Administrative areas of Burma/Myanmar:
Rakhine State
Language:
English
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