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Japan envoy to ask Myanmar for
economic reforms, democracy
Sunday, April 27, 2003 at 07:06 JST BANGKOK, April 27, Kyodo - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will make a three-day visit to Myanmar from Tuesday to call on junta leaders to promote economic structural reforms and democracy, Japanese diplomatic sources said Saturday. Mori, carrying a letter from current Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi stating the requests, plans to meet with officials including Gen Than Shwe, chief of the junta or State Peace and Development Council, they said. |