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Manmohan Singh in Myanmar: An Indian PM's visit after 25 years
Sunday May 27, 2012 07:05:24 PM,
IANS
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Nay Pyi
Taw: Manmohan
Singh arrived in Myanmar's new capital Sunday on a three-day trip
that will see India expanding trade and connectivity with its
oil-rich neighbour that an Indian prime minister is visiting after
25 years.
Manmohan Singh will Monday meet President Thein Sein who heads a
quasi civilian government that has been carrying out rapid reforms
since last year. On Tuesday, he will meet pro-democracy icon Aung
San Suu Kyi in Yangon.
The prime minister is accompanied by his wife Gursharan Kaur,
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and senior officials.
This is the first trip by an Indian prime minister to the country
in a quarter century. The last Indian prime minister to visit the
country was Rajiv Gandhi in 1987.
Improving regional connectivity and expanding bilateral trade will
be key highlights of the visit by Manmohan Singh who is expected
to underline India's full support for bolstering the democratic
transformation in that country.
Manmohan Singh will speak on the theme "India and Myanmar: A
Partnership for Progress and Regional Development" at a function
organised by the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of
Commerce & Industry and the Myanmar Development Resource
Institute.
A visit to the historic Shwedagon Pagoda and the tomb of Bahadur
Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor of India, in Yangon are among
important highlights of the prime minister's itinerary.
Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said the foundation for the visit
was laid during last year's visit by the Myanmar president to
India.
"Myanmar is integral to India's Look East policy," he said in New
Delhi Friday.
He said new initiatives will be discussed during the trip that
will "lay out the roadmap" with regard to security, connectivity
as well as human resource development and academic exchanges.
The Indian cabinet Thursday has cleared a bus service linking
Imphal in Manipur to Mandalay in Myanmar. Mandalay is about 600 km
from the Indian border town of Moreh and Imphal is another 100 km
away from there.
A delegation of CEOs of major Indian companies are also in Myanmar
during the prime minister's visit.
India shares a 1,643 km long border with Myanmar. The Indian
states sharing Myanmar border are Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland,
Manipur, Mizoram.
The prime minister returns Tuesday night.
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