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Informarion Sheet A.0071(I)



                                   Informarion Sheet
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     A.0071(I) 								24-7-97


(1)		Myanmar Becomes Full Member of ASEAN

		The Union of Myanmar was welcomed into the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) yesterday, (23rd. July 1997), during an Admission Ceremony
held in Subang Jaya, Malaysia, where ASEAN Foreign Ministers are gathered for
the 30th. ASEAN Ministerial Meeting.

		Minister for Foreign Affairs U Ohn Gyaw signed the Declaration on the
Admission of the Union of Myanmar into the ASEAN, and the Protocol for the
Accession of the Union of Myanmar to ASEAN Agreements, on behalf of the
Government of the Union of Myanmar.

		Myanmar will be participating in the 30th. ASEAN Ministerial Meeting as a
full member from 24th. July onwards together with the Lao People?s Democratic
Republic.

(2)		U Aung San U and Wife Give Donation 
	
		U Aung San U (elder brother of Mrs. Aris / Daw Su Kyi) and wife Daw Le Le
Nwe Thein donated funds for general renovation of Shwedagon Pagoda on the
23rd. of July. On the same day Daw Le Le Nwe Thein and her brothers and
sisters collectively donated funds for restoration of an ancient pagoda in
Bagan.

		U Aung San U and Daw Le Le Nwe Thein arrived at Myanmar from the United
States to attend the 50th. Anniversary of the Martyr?s Day Ceremony in
Yangon.

(3)		Office Calls In Yangon

		(A)	Chairman of Myanmar Investment Commission VADM. Maung Maung Khin
received Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Charles Jamieson of Premier
Oil Plc of the U.K at his office on the afternoon of 23rd. July.

		(B)	Minister for Transport Lt.Gen. Thein Win received Civil Aviation M.
Andre Vessier of French Civil Aviation Department at his office on the
afternoon of 23rd. July.

(4)		Drug Seizures

		(A)	Sixteen Packets of raw opium weighing (18.04)kilos were seized in
Mandalay by Mandalay police on the 2nd. of July from a person carrying hidden
opium in two buckets. 

		(B)	(2) packets of heroin weighing (0.5)kilo and (4) packets of heroin
wighing (0.08)kilo were seized from (3) passengers on a passenger bus near
Myanmar/China border by the anti-drug squad, it is learnt.

(5)		Efforts to Promote Export of Crops

		Farm produce constituted (35) percent of the income from all exports in
fiscal year 1996-1997, and the value of exports including beans, corn,
cotton, sugarcane, rubber and jute amounted to (30) million U.S dollars.

		The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation held a meeting on the 23rd. July
to stress the importance of paddy, beans, Ngwechi cotton and sugarcane as
four major export crops in agriculture sector, the pillar for the national
economy and cited targets for  this year.

		Altogether (12) million acres will be placed under monsoon paddy, (5.4)
million acres under beans, (700,000) acres under Ngwechi cotton, (225,000)
acres under sugarcane. The ministry is providing sufficient water, seeds,
other supplies and technical knowhow with measures taken for cultivation of
jute, rubber, corn, coffee and silk in addition to the four major crops.

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