Senior Lieutenant-General Phung Quang Thanh and party of Vietnam
arrive to pay goodwill visit

YANGON, 3 April — At the invitation of Vice-Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, Chief of General Staff Senior Lieutenant-General Phung Quang Thanh and party of the Vietnamese People’s Army of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam arrived here by air at 5.45 pm today to pay a goodwill visit to Myanmar. They were welcomed at the airport by Vice-Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Maung Aye.

Also present on the occasion were Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council Adjutant-General Lt-Gen Thein Sein, members of the State Peace and Development Council Lt-Gen Ye Myint and Lt-Gen Aung Htwe of the Ministry of Defence, Chairman of Yangon Division Peace and Development Council Commander of Yangon Command Maj-Gen Myint Swe, senior military officers of the Ministry of Defence, Charge d’Affaires ai of the Vietnamese Embassy Mr Pham Van Cu, Vietnamese Military Attaché Sr Col Nguyen Van Thanh and officials.

Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and Senior Lt-Gen Phung Quang Thanh took the salute of the Guard of Honour and inspected it.

Next, the Vietnamese guests left for No 1 Tatmadaw Guest House. Vice-Senior General Maung Aye and party waved to the guests.

Source: "The New Light Of Myanmar", www.myanmar.com/nlm/
 

 Foreign Minister leaves for Pakistan

YANGON, 3 April — At the invitation of Mr Khurshid M Kasuri, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, U Nyan Win, Minister for Foreign Affairs, left Yangon by air this morning to attend the Fourth Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Ministerial Meeting to be held in Islamabad, Pakistan, from 5 to 7 April 2005.

The minister was seen off at the Yangon International Airport by Minister for Culture Maj-Gen Kyi Aung, Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Maj-Gen Sein Htwa, Deputy Ministers for Foreign Affairs U Kyaw Thu and U Maung Myint, Directors-general and officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistani Ambassador to Myanmar Mr Muhammad Nawaz Chaudhry and officials of the Pakistan Embassy in Yangon.

Source: "The New Light Of Myanmar", www.myanmar.com/nlm/

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