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Briefs ( Page 12, Date: 11/6/97 )

Asean message 

RANGOON -- Chairman of the State Law and Order Restoration Council 
Senior-General Than Shwe yesterday received visiting Malaysian Foreign 
Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. He arrived here yesterday morning, state-run 
TV Myanmar reported. The minister, who is presently chairman of the Standing 
Committee of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), is on a 
mission to convey to the Myanmar leader the Asean decision that Myanmar, along 
with Cambodia and Laos, will be admitted into the group in July when the 
Association holds its 30th annual ministerial meeting in Kuala Lumpur. 
(Agencies -- Xinhua)