Myanmar's ready for challenges of ASEAN chairmanship: foreign affairs official
Published on Wednesday, 24 April 2013 12:16
Aung Linn, the director general of ASEAN affairs department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, seen after the Senior Officials' Meeting yesterday (Photo - EMG)
Myanmar is prepared to face the challenges of the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Myanmar senior official visiting in Brunei for the 22nd ASEAN Summit told Eleven Media yesterday.
"We are prepared to face all the challenges_ the economic challenges, political challenges, social challenges, and everything," Aung Linn, the director general of ASEAN affairs department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said after a meeting between the senior officials of member nations.
Myanmar will take the chairmanship of ASEAN in 2014, and is preparing for it, Aung Linn said.
He noted that solving the territorial disputes in the South China Sea and achieving the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will play critical roles at the time Myanmar chairs the ASEAN next year.
"Regarding the South China Sea issue, our country is not directly involved in it. However, as a member of the ASEAN, we will stand and work together with ASEAN countries and the others to solve them," he said.
With regard to achieving the AEC by 2015, he said, "There are goals towards AEC. We will have to fulfill these goals as ASEAN members."
He also said Myanmar is continuing its reforms towards democracy. The country is reforming its economic and social sectors but is still lagging behind in terms of development for which it is perceived as driving force for more reforms, he told the foreign reporters.
The 2-day ASEAN Summit will start today, and it is the first one held by Brunei which took ASEAN chair in 2013.
Source: http://www.news.myanmaronlinecentre.com/2013/04/24/myanmars-ready-for-challenges-of-asean-chairmanship-foreign-affairs-official/
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