URGENT NOTE: Myanmar Leader to Atte

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Subject: URGENT NOTE: Myanmar Leader to Attend S. African New  PRESIDENT'S

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Myanmar Leader to Attend S. African New  PRESIDENT'S Inauguration

               Xinhua
               10-JUN-99

               YANGON (June 11) XINHUA - First Secretary of the
               Myanmar State Peace and Development Council
               (SPDC) Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt will attend
               the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected
               president of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, according to
               an official announcement issued here Friday. 

               At the invitation of President Nelson R Mandela,
               khin Nyunt is to take part in the ceremony on behalf
               of the Myanmar SPDC Chairman Senior-General
               Than Shwe, it said. 

               Myanmar and S. Africa established diplomatic
               relations on April 20, 1995 and S. Africa is also one
               of the 10 countries with which the Myanmar military
               government established such relations since it
               came to power on September 18, 1988. 

               Myanmar and S. Africa agreed then to develop
               friendly relations and cooperation between the two
               countries on the basis of the Five Principles of
               Peaceful Co-existence and the principles enshrined
               in the Charter of the United Nations.