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India supports a “Myanmar-led and Myanmar-owned” bid process that tin present lasting bid and improvement for each successful the Southeast Asian country, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said connected Wednesday (March 4, 2026).
A military-backed enactment had won the Myanmar wide predetermination successful January.
Mr. Jaishankar was speaking virtually astatine the inauguration of the Sarsobeikman Literary Centre gathering successful the bosom of Yangon. The gathering has been constructed with New Delhi’s assistance.
The Minister highlighted the value India attaches to its ties with Myanmar saying the state lies astatine the confluence of New Delhi's 3 cardinal overseas argumentation priorities: ‘Neighbourhood First’, 'Act East', and MAHASAGAR (Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security and Growth Across Regions).
Myanmar is 1 of India's strategical neighbours and shares a 1,640-kilometre-long borderline with a fig of northeastern States, including strife-torn Manipur. The state has been witnessing wide convulsive protests aft the subject seized powerfulness successful a coup connected February 1, 2021.
"As the world's largest ideology with 1.4 cardinal radical surviving unneurotic successful bid and harmony, India has regularly shared its experiences successful federalism and constitutionalism with stakeholders successful Myanmar," Mr. Jaishankar said. "We enactment an inclusive, Myanmar-led and Myanmar-owned bid process, that tin present lasting bid and improvement for each successful Myanmar," helium added.
He said the Sarsobeikman Centre volition enactment the conservation and survey of classical and people literatures of Myanmar, arsenic good arsenic translation, archival work, originative writing, and scholarly exchanges.
"Our multifaceted engagement, includes political, trade, information and taste cooperation. When it comes to improvement cooperation, our engagement with Myanmar has been people-centric and demand-driven, aimed towards strengthening section economies and improving lives," the Minister said.
Mr. Jaishankar said India and Myanmar person been bound unneurotic for centuries by spirituality, kinship and geography, arsenic good arsenic by connection and literature.
“As Buddhism and Pali connection and lit travelled crossed South Asia, they carried with them ideas, texts, and a shared intelligence heritage," helium said.
