Minister of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar U Wunna Maung Lwin (L) listens as India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a meeting in New Delhi today.
New Delhi: A month after theIndian Armycarried out a surgical strike on northeast militants along the India-Myanmar border, the country's Foreign Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Wednesday.
Maung Lwin is visiting India for the First India-Myanmar Joint Consultative Commission meeting
On Friday, he will co-chair the Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting along with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
Maung Lwin, who arrived on Tuesday night on a four-day visit, is leading a high-level delegation to India for the meeting. The JCC has been constituted under the Protocol on Consultations between India's External Affairs Ministry and Myanmar's Foreign Affairs Ministry signed during the visit of the Myanmar foreign minister to India in January 2003, said a MEA statement.
This first JCC meeting will review progress on bilateral initiatives in various sectors, identify thrust areas and give directions for further growth of the bilateral partnership. The meeting would also provide a useful opportunity for exchange of views on regional and international issues of mutual interest.
The Myanmar minister will also visit the Foreign Service Institute in New Delhi and will also visit Jaipur with his delegation.
The Indian Army had carried out strikes on camps of northeast militants in early June along the border in retaliation for the June 4 ambush by militants on an Army convoy in which 18 soldiers were killed in Manipur. IANS
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