NEWS: Diplomats and Media Persons S

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Subject: NEWS: Diplomats and Media Persons Study Wa Region

SOURCE: Information Sheet No.B-1156(I) 21st November1999
        MYANMAR INFORMATION COMMITTEE, YANGON


Diplomats and Media Persons Study Wa Region
Alternative Development Programme in Shan State (East)
 
The 35-member study group comprising diplomats,
officials of UN Agencies and media persons led by
Director-General of Department for Development of
Border Areas and National Races and Director of
Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC)
Office (International Relations) left Yangon by
aircraft on 19 November for Kengtung to study in Wa
Region Alternative Development Programme in Shan State
(East) being jointly implemented by CCDAC and UNDCP.
They went to Myaymaingpauk in Wa Special Region 2 by
aircraft. At the Office of Wa Region Alternative
Development Programme, Planning Adviser Mr. John
Deltom explained progress of work and the work to be
done. The study tour delegation was divided into three
groups, which went to Hada Village by helicopter and
Pansan Village and Pauknoinu village by car. Leaders
of Villages and officials of the programme reported on
arrangements for the development of villages. Then,
members of delegation inspected health, education,
water supply for the villages, cultivation of annual
and perennial crops, tea and buck-wheat in the region.
In the evening, Wa national leader U Pauk Yu Chan and
officials replied to the questions. The group includes
Assistant Resident Representative of UNDCP,
ambassadors of Australia, United Kingdom, France,
Japan, Italy and Russian Federation, counsellors of
United States, People's Republic of China and Canada
Embassies, officials of UNDP, UNICEF, ICRC,
journalists of Asahi Shimbun, Reuters, AP, Asahi TV
and Sankei Shimbun and departmental officials. They
arrived back Yangon in the evening.
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