Myanmar and Thailand sign visa exem

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Subject: Myanmar and Thailand sign visa exemption, cultural agreements

Myanmar and Thailand sign visa exemption, cultural agreements

YANGON, 24 Aug-The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today issued a Press release 
on the Fifth Meeting of the Myanmar-Thailand Joint Commission for Bilateral 
Cooperation today and the Senior Officials Meeting yesterday. The following 
is the full text of the Press release:


At the invitation of Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Myanmar U 
Win Aung, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand Dr Surin 
Pitsuwan and wife Mrs Alisa Pitsuwan arrived Yangon by air this morning.


The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand and wife and Thai 
Delegation members were welcomed at the airport by Minister for Foreign 
Affairs U Win Aung and wife Daw San Yone, Myanmar Ambassador to Thailand U 
Hla Maung, responsible officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the 
Ambassador of Thailand to Myanmar Mr Pensak Chalarak and wife and members of 
the Royal Thai Embassy in Yangon.


The Fifth Meeting of the Myanmar-Thailand Joint Commission for Bilateral 
Cooperation co-chaired by the two respective Foreign Ministers was held in 
the afternoon at the Wunzin Min Yarzar Meeting Room of the Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs. At the conclusion of the meeting, the leaders of the two 
delegations signed the Agreed Minutes of the Meeting. On behalf of their 
respective governments, they also signed the Agreement between the Government 
of the Union of Myanmar and the Government of the Kingdom of Thailand on the 
Exemption of Visas for Holders of Diplomatic and Official Passports. 
Subsequently, the Cultural Agreement between the Government of the Union of 
Myanmar and the Government of the Kingdom of Thailand was also signed at the 
Ministry by U Soe Tha, Minister for National Planning and Economic 
Development of the Union of Myanmar, and by Dr Surin Pitsuwan, Minister of 
Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand, on behalf of their respective 
Governments.


Then the leaders of both delegations held a joint Press conference at Wungyi 
Padetha Yarzar hall at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and briefed the local 
and foreign correspondents on matters being discussed and agreed at the 
meeting and also on the existing cordial ties and mutually beneficial 
cooperation between the two countries.


The Senior Officials Delegation from Thailand led by Mr Saroj Chavanaviraj, 
Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, arrived 
Yangon in advance on 22 August 1999 to attend the Senior Officials Meeting of 
the Myanmar-Thailand Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation.
 
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