Bilateral Friendship: Meeting with Belarusian President and study tour in Minsk

Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker and Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker U Aung Lin Dwe paid courtesy call on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at the Presidential Palace in Minsk on October 22nd.

The meeting discussed bilateral friendship and cooperation through reciprocal visits, parliamentary cooperation, and mutual trust between Myanmar and Belarus on international stage.  They cordially exchanged views on providing supports for Myanmar to become one of the member countries in Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS.

The Myanmar delegation later visited Great Stone China-Belarus Industrial Park. It houses research and innovation centers, One Station offices, Trade, exhibition, and logistics centers, staff housings and 137 companies from China, Belarus, Russia and European Union.

In the afternoon, the Myanmar delegation made study tour to Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War in Minsk. Officials explained the display of historical evidences of great patriotic war, ammunitions, tankers, fighter jets, 3D display on personal items of soldiers such as letters and photographs.

At the Hi Tech Park, the Myanmar delegation observed the zone operation with over 60,000 experts from 1,000 tech companies, generating 3 percent of country’s GDP, operation process of special economic and legal affairs zone and software and technology service provision for world leading companies. In the evening, the Myanmar delegation attended the dinner reception, hosted by Mrs. Natalya Kochanova, Speaker of the Council of the Republic of Belarus.