Korea president to visit Myanmar
15 May 2012 7:59 AM GMT
South Korean President Lee Myung Bak will make a two-day state visit to Myanmar from Monday for talks with Myanmar President Thein Sein on promoting bilateral ties, South Korea's Presidential office announced Monday.
'The visit, the first by a South Korean President in 29 years, will certainly become an opportunity of further deepen friendly and cooperative relations with Myanmar that have been developing since the two sides established diplomatic ties in 1975,' a statement from the office said. Lee will fly to Myanmar from Beijing, where he attended an annual meeting with leaders from China and Japan over the weekend.
The summit meeting at the administrative capital Naypyitan will cover economic and trade issues, as well as ways to cooperate in dealing with international issues. '(The president's visit) is also expected to help international efforts on Myanmar's reform and openness that have been made recently,' the statement said. Myanmar restored diplomatic ties with North Korea in 2007. Â
Myanmar severed diplomatic relations with the North in 1983, following a deadly bombing.
'The visit, the first by a South Korean President in 29 years, will certainly become an opportunity of further deepen friendly and cooperative relations with Myanmar that have been developing since the two sides established diplomatic ties in 1975,' a statement from the office said. Lee will fly to Myanmar from Beijing, where he attended an annual meeting with leaders from China and Japan over the weekend.
The summit meeting at the administrative capital Naypyitan will cover economic and trade issues, as well as ways to cooperate in dealing with international issues. '(The president's visit) is also expected to help international efforts on Myanmar's reform and openness that have been made recently,' the statement said. Myanmar restored diplomatic ties with North Korea in 2007. Â
Myanmar severed diplomatic relations with the North in 1983, following a deadly bombing.
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