Indian PM to visit Myanmar to boost ties

YANGON, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will pay an official goodwill visit to Myanmar soon to boost bilateral ties, said an official announcement Thursday without giving the date of his visit.

However, Singh will arrive in Nay Pyi Taw on May 27 as disclosed by the Indian official sources.

During his three-day visit in Myanmar, Singh will hold discussions with Myanmar President U Thein Sein and some bilateral agreements are expected to be signed.

Singh is also expected to meet Aung San Suu Kyi, parliament member and leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD), in Yangon before he wound up his visit.

Myanmar President U Thein Sein visited India in October last year , during which he had talks with Singh on bilateral relations, reiterating their shared commitment to strengthening and broadening the multifaceted relationship and to take it to a new level.

Thein Sein's India visit also produced a memorandum of understanding on upgradation of the Yangon Children's Hospital and Sittway General Hospital and on a program of cooperation in science and technology for the period of 2012-15.

India is actively involved in over a dozen projects in Myanmar, both in infrastructural and non-infrastructural areas.

These include upgradation and resurfacing of the 160-kilometer long Tamu-Kalewa-Kalemyo road, construction and upgradation of the Rhi- Tiddim Road in Myanmar and the Kaladan Multimodal Transport Project.

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