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Press Release on Second ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime

YANGON, 21 June-Myanmar is to host the Second ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on
Transnational Crime at the Traders Hotel here on 23 June.

    The Ministry of Home Affairs yesterday issued a Press Release on the
meeting. The following is the full text:
    The 2nd ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (2nd AMMTC)
will be hosted by Myanmar on 23 June 1999 at the Traders Hotel in Yangon. H
E Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt, Secretary -I of the SPDC will deliver the keynote
address at the opening ceremony of the ministerial meeting. The one-day
meeting will be preceded by the Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational
Crime which is to be held from 21-22 June 1999.

    The Ministers are expected to adopt an action plan that is to extend
ASEAN member countries' efforts to combat transnational crime from the
national and bilateral levels to the regional dimension, and strengthen
regional commitment and capacity to undertake the expanded task. The action
plan is expected to put in place a cohesive regional strategy to fight
transnational crime and would encompass, among others, information
exchange, cooperation in legal and law enforcement matters and extra
regional cooperation as key programme activities. An institutional
framework to assist the Ministers to better direct and coordinate regional
efforts in dealing with transnational crime is also to consider under the
Plan.

    The Ministers are expected to consider the establishment of the ASEAN
Centre on Transnational Crime (ACOT). The ACOT is envisioned to promote
data resource sharing, assist in the implementation of programme activities
outlined in the proposed action plan, and be a repository of information on
national legislation, regulatory measures and jurisprudence of individual
member countries. It is also envisaged that the ACOT will have research
capabilities to conduct in-depth analysis of transnational crime activities
to recommend appropriate regional strategies to fight these felonious
activities.

    The Ministers are likely to discuss enhancing cooperation with the
dialogue partners and relevant international organizations to effectively
deal with transnational crime in the region.


    The Second AMMTC is a follow-up to the First Meeting of ASEAN
Ministers of Interior/Home Affairs held in Manila on 20 December 1997 where
the Ministers adopted the ASEAN Declaration on Transnational Crime. As
espoused in the Declaration, a high-level ad-hoc ASEAN Experts Group
Meeting on Transnational Crime convened in the Philippines on 25-26
November 1998, developed an ASEAN Plan of Action to Combat Trans-national
Crime and refined the feasibility study on the establishment of the ACOT
for the consideration of the 2nd AMMTC.

    ASEAN member countries have been fostering/cooperation in combating
transnational crime for more than two decades. Initially, ASEAN was
concerned with the abuse of narcotics and trafficking in illicit drugs.
However, with the expansion and diversification of transnational crime to
include terrorism, arms smuggling, money laundering, illegal migration, and
piracy.

and the highly organized nature of such crimes, ASEAN has stepped up and
expanded its cooperative efforts against these crimes. ASEAN bodies
currently involved in formulating policies and initiating activities
against transnational crime are the ASEAN Chiefs of National Police
(ASEANAPOL), the ASEAN Senior Officials on Drugs Matters (ASOD) and the
ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime.
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Sayagyi U Ba Thaung (Maung Hlaing Win)
1913-1999

U Ba Thaung was born to U Hlaing and Daw Kywe at Sheinmagar Village in
Wetlet Township, Shwebo District, on 9 January 1913.

    At the age of 16, he served as school teacher at Sheinmagar AV middle
school until the World War I. After the war, he became a high school
teacher at U Hla Kyaw's private school in Mandalay, Taingchit high school,
Nandwin Tatmadaw educatibn school, Pwegon school, RRI high school and St
Peters school. In Yangon he served at youth affairs schools in Kandawgalay
and South Okkalapa

    He lectured at Translation Course conducted by the Ministry of
Information till 1994.

    He became a member of Doh-Bamar-Asiayon in 1940 and Wetlet Township
duty officer. He took part in Revolutionary Party during Japanese
occupation in Myanmar and in Bunna Communist Party up to 1951. He was a
member of Burma Socialist Programme Party in 1962 and CEC member of
Literary Workers Organization till 1984. He was also reporter of Mandalay
Thuriya Newspaper and Yangon Toe-Tet-Yay Newspaper. After regaining
independence, U Ba Thaung served as editor and manager at Mandalay
Hmyint-Tin-Yay Publishing House, Alinyaung Sarzin, Mandalay Nagani Journal
and Pyi Nyunt Magazine.

    He became columnist of Loktha Pyithu Nezin in 1962 and wrote articles
up to 1980. He wrote on international affairs in Myanmar encyclopaedia Year
Book since 1974.

    Some books he compiled are ' Three women of the world', 'Indira
Gandhi!, 'Significant events in 1974'.

    U Ba Thaung, passed away on 13 June 1999.



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