Gen Bipin Rawat on 4-day tour to Myanmar

Gen Bipin Rawat on 4-day tour to Myanmar

PTIUpdated: Thursday, May 30, 2019, 06:28 AM IST
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New Delhi : Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat on Sunday began a four-day visit to Myanmar during which he will meet the country’s iconic leader Aung San Suu Kyi and hold talks with top military leadership to further ramp up defence and security cooperation between the two countries.

Myanmar is one of India’s strategic neighbours and shares a 1,640-km-long border with a number of northeastern states including militancy-hit Nagaland and Manipur. General Rawat is scheduled to meet Suu Kyi, who is Myanmar’s Foreign Minister, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, and Vice Senior General Soe Win, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services and Commander-in-Chief of Army.

In the meetings, both sides are expected to explore ways to further broaden security and defence engagements, particularly between the two armies.

“This visit is yet another milestone to reach out to our neighbourhood in the field of defence cooperation and build upon existing mutual cooperation and trust between the two nations,” a Defence Ministry statement said.            –PTI

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