Senior General Than Shwe receives UN Secretary-General

NAY PYI TAW, 23 May—Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council of the Union of Myanmar Senior General Than Shwe received UN Secretary-General Mr Ban Ki-moon and party at Bayintnaung Yeiktha, here, at 10:30 am today. Also present on the occasion wereVice-Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, Member of the SPDC Thura Shwe Mann, Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development

Council Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Minister for Foreign Affairs U Nyan Win, Deputy Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Brig-Gen Kyaw Myint, Myanmar Permanent Representative to UN Ambassador U Kyaw Tint Swe and Director- General of the Protocol Department U Kyaw Kyaw. The UN Secretary-General was accompanied by Mr Vijay Nambiar, Senior Adviser, Mr John Holmes, Senior Adviser, Mr Michael Meyer, Director for Communications of EOSG, Mr Bishow Parajuli, Resident Coordinator, Yangon and Mr Daniel B Baker, Representative of the United Nations Population Fund.