Senior General Than Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar, has sent a message of congratulations to Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his re-election as the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran on 12th June.
Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar Senior General Than Shwe accepted credentials of the newly accredited ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to the Union of Myanmar Mr. Lazaro Hayrera at the Bayint Naung Yeik Tha in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday. Also present on the occasion were Secretary-l of the State Peace and Development Council General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs U Maung Myint and Director General U Kyaw Kyaw of the Protocol Department under the minister of Foreign Affairs.
Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar Senior General Than Shwe accepted credentials of the newly accredited ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Union of Myanmar Mr. Margik Beek Mark at the Bayint Naung Yeik Tha in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday. Also present on the occasion were Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs U Maung Myint and Director General U Kyaw Kyaw of the Protocol Department under the minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Opening Ceremony of Special Refresher Course N0.34 for Basic Education teachers was held at the Yadana Hall of the Central Institute of the Civil Services (Upper Myanmar) in Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay Division on 28th June. Specking on the occasion, on behalf of the Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Minister for Education Dr. Chan Nyein said that building a new nation based on education sector as a pillar as demanded by the history, is the inborn duty for each and every union national to implement with might and main. So, the Basic Education Teachers are obliged to train and nurture the new generation youths to become the human resources with high nationalistic spirit who will be building the future nation. As far as the conviction, perception and caliber of the new generation youths are high, our mother land; the heritage handed down by our ancestors will enabling to be built firmly as a modern developed nation amidst the world's nations. The nationalistic fervour that should be handed down to the youths who are going to build the future State is non-other than the Union Spirit. As a result, wherever they may reside in the Union of Myanmar, the strong Union Spirit must be deeply rooted consistently in their hearts as an invaluable national heritage with the concept that the only Union Spirit is the genuine patriotic spirit that need to be preserved by the entire mass of the union nationals. At present, the Government is building strong and powerful political, economic and social basic infrastructures with a certain value in the country adequately for the nation to be able to stand tall as a sovereign nation with dignity among the world's nations not only for the present time but also for the future. As a result, teachers are obliged to make known and implement the process of National Education Promotion Projects being materialized by the government that is constantly striving for the progressive pedagogic perceptions and technologies to be apt with national norms of our own country. As far as the teachers' organizational scope is widen far beyond the classroom reaching the parents and the people, will effective academic awareness be enabling to raised among them there by the basic education schools will emerge not only as a centre for the students to pursue their education but also a centre for the youths in the region to make observation and researches. So, in conclusion, the minister urged the trainee teachers to completely study and make a note of the nationalistic lessons and endeavours for building a future State while undertaking the course. Altogether, 1,305 teacher trainees from the basic education schools in the states and divisions in upper Myanmar are attending the 5 week course.
