UNB, Dhaka :
An influential Myanmar foreign ministry think tank has suggested “keeping aside” the Rohingya issue for a closer relations between Bangladesh and Myanmar though ruling party chief patron U Tin Oo sees peaceful solutions to every problem through talks.
“Keep aside that issue. Let us work on other issues,” former ambassador and member of the MISIS, U Wynn Lwin, told Bangladesh media team, including a representative of UNB, in the presence of MISIS Chairman at their office in Yangon. The think tank – Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies (MISIS) — even denied the existence of Rohingyas which is not actually true. “We can bring Bangladesh-Myanmar closer as long as we don’t use this (Rohingya) word,”
Lwin said. He claimed that is the spirit of the people in Myanmar and the Myanmar government. Even while talking to the Bangladesh journalists at the ruling National League of Democracy’s (NLD) headquarters in Yangon, U Tin Oo, also Aung San Suu Kyi’s most trusted patron, did not pronounce the word ‘Rohingya’. The veteran leader, now 89, however, favourded peaceful solutions to problems between Bangladesh and Myanmar when he was indirectly asked about Muslims.
Sharing the potential of Bangladesh-Myanmar relations, the MISIS Chairman and retired Ambassador Nyunt Maung Shein at his office in Yangon said Bangladeshi businessmen should come here to showcase their products in Myanmar through single-country trade fair. He also shared the difficulties in having physical connectivity and also mentioned that the BCIM initiative sees a slow progress. Member of the MISIS and retired Ambassador U Wynn Lwin said, “I want better relations with Bangladesh.”
Lwin who joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1960-61 as Third Secretary and served as a deputy head of Myanmar Mission in Dhaka during 1978-82 briefed the Bangladesh media team on the priority areas of the current government’s foreign policy. According to him, the current government will treat its all neighbours equally and the government will also address both internal and external issues together. Sharing his Bangladesh experience, Lwin, who carried the message of Myanmar’s recognition to Bangladesh after liberation war, said he had seen a “poor” Bangladesh which is now “no more poor” with so many changes on development fronts.
Senior journalists in Yangon said few days ago hundreds of Buddhist monks demonstrated in front of the US embassy in Yangon because the embassy had used the word Rohingya in one of its statements referring to the stateless population in Arakan.
An influential Myanmar foreign ministry think tank has suggested “keeping aside” the Rohingya issue for a closer relations between Bangladesh and Myanmar though ruling party chief patron U Tin Oo sees peaceful solutions to every problem through talks.
“Keep aside that issue. Let us work on other issues,” former ambassador and member of the MISIS, U Wynn Lwin, told Bangladesh media team, including a representative of UNB, in the presence of MISIS Chairman at their office in Yangon. The think tank – Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies (MISIS) — even denied the existence of Rohingyas which is not actually true. “We can bring Bangladesh-Myanmar closer as long as we don’t use this (Rohingya) word,”
Lwin said. He claimed that is the spirit of the people in Myanmar and the Myanmar government. Even while talking to the Bangladesh journalists at the ruling National League of Democracy’s (NLD) headquarters in Yangon, U Tin Oo, also Aung San Suu Kyi’s most trusted patron, did not pronounce the word ‘Rohingya’. The veteran leader, now 89, however, favourded peaceful solutions to problems between Bangladesh and Myanmar when he was indirectly asked about Muslims.
Sharing the potential of Bangladesh-Myanmar relations, the MISIS Chairman and retired Ambassador Nyunt Maung Shein at his office in Yangon said Bangladeshi businessmen should come here to showcase their products in Myanmar through single-country trade fair. He also shared the difficulties in having physical connectivity and also mentioned that the BCIM initiative sees a slow progress. Member of the MISIS and retired Ambassador U Wynn Lwin said, “I want better relations with Bangladesh.”
Lwin who joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1960-61 as Third Secretary and served as a deputy head of Myanmar Mission in Dhaka during 1978-82 briefed the Bangladesh media team on the priority areas of the current government’s foreign policy. According to him, the current government will treat its all neighbours equally and the government will also address both internal and external issues together. Sharing his Bangladesh experience, Lwin, who carried the message of Myanmar’s recognition to Bangladesh after liberation war, said he had seen a “poor” Bangladesh which is now “no more poor” with so many changes on development fronts.
Senior journalists in Yangon said few days ago hundreds of Buddhist monks demonstrated in front of the US embassy in Yangon because the embassy had used the word Rohingya in one of its statements referring to the stateless population in Arakan.
