NEWS - Myanmar Leader Leaves for S.

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Subject: NEWS - Myanmar Leader Leaves for S.African New PRESIDENT'S

Inauguration
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Myanmar Leader Leaves for S.African New PRESIDENT'S Inauguration

               Xinhua
               14-JUN-99

               YANGON (June 14) XINHUA - First Secretary of the
               Myanmar State Peace and Development Council
               (SPDC) Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt left here
               Monday for South Africa to attend Wednesday's
               inauguration ceremony of the newly elected
               president of that country Thabo Mbeki. 

               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. 

               Accompanying Khin Nyunt are Minister at the SPDC
               Chairman's Office Brigadier-General Abel and
               Foreign Minister U Win Aung, official Radio
               Myanmar reported Monday night. 

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