Reuters-Myanmar to host ASEAN busin

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Myanmar to host ASEAN business meeting
06:20 a.m. Apr 26, 1999 Eastern
YANGON, April 26 (Reuters) - Myanmar will host a meeting of the ASEAN
Chambers of Commerce and Industry between May 26 and 28, officials said on
Monday.

``A total of 150 participants from ASEAN countries and other regions are
expected to attend the 56th Council Meeting of the ASEAN Chambers of
Commerce and Industry,'' the chairman of Myanmar's Federation of Chambers of
Commerce and Industry, Win Myint, told a news conference.

Participants would have an opportunity to explore potential business and
investment in Myanmar and to visit industrial parks being built in the
country, he said.

Founded in 1972, the ASEAN Chambers of Commerce and Industry is supported by
eight of the nine members of the Association of South East Asian Nations
(ASEAN). The ninth ASEAN member, Laos has not joined.

Myanmar, ostracised by much of the Western world for its record on political
and human rights, was admitted to ASEAN in 1997. ASEAN has a policy of
non-interference in what it considers the internal affairs of its members.