"...The rights of the child have been given top priority in the global agenda since the World Summit for Children. The same is true with our national agenda. The Government of Myanmar is giving top priority to the children traditionally as well as legally. Since our accession to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, we have laid down and implemented programmes at the national level for the well-being and interests of children. On 14 July 1993, two years after the accession, we promulgated the Child Law. In September 1993, we formed a National Committee on the Rights of the Child to effectively and successfully implement the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Child Law..."