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NEWS-Myanmar Bans Dual Citizenship



Note: This is actually an old topic that they illegitamately tried to
apply Aung San Suu Kyi who never gave up her Burmese citizenship.

Myanmar Bans Dual Citizenship

            Xinhua
            14-JAN-99

            YANGON (Jan. 14) XINHUA - Myanmar has ruled out dual
            citizenship and said a stateless person has no right to live
or
            travel in Myanmar and has to be held in a place designated
            by the state. 

            Quoting a section of the country's Citizenship Law, the
            official New Light of Myanmar newspaper said Thursday that
            Myanmar cannot allow dual citizenship because it takes
            seriously the value of citizenship. 

            The paper also quoted another part of the Myanmar
            Citizenship Law promulgated in 1982 as saying a person
            ceases to be a citizen from the day he or she leaves the
            country permanently or acquires the citizenship of another
            country or takes a passport of another country. 

            A person, who ceases to be a Myanmar citizen, no longer
            has the right to live in Myanmar as a citizen originally
does
            but is to be sent to a country which can accept him or her,
            the paper said. It added that if no country accepts him or
her,
            the person will become stateless and has no right to live or
            travel in Myanmar as a citizen or a foreigner but has to be
            held in a place designated by the state. 

            Myanmar promulgated the new Citizenship Law in 1982,
            abolishing the 1948 Union Citizenship Act and the Union
            Citizenship (Election) Acts.