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NEWS - Dhaka Initiates Asian Highwa
- Subject: NEWS - Dhaka Initiates Asian Highwa
- From: BurmaJapan@xxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 12:53:00
Dhaka Initiates Asian Highway Link with Rangoon
Xinhua
09-DEC-97
DHAKA (Dec. 9) XINHUA - Bangladesh
has initiated bilateral discussions with
Myanmar for the Asian Highway (AH) link
between Dhaka and Yangon, sources
from the Ministry of Communications said
today.
This was stated in Bangladesh's country
paper presented at a three-day
international seminar in Dhaka, which is
being jointly held by the Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and the
Pacific (ESCAP) and the Bangladeshi
Ministry of Communications.
Bangladesh has also requested the
ESCAP "to start an appropriate study" for
this purpose and "to play a role to
convince" Myanmar for the direct route
between the two countries, the sources
said.