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Myanmar President U Min Aung Hlaing assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Monday (June 1, 2026) that Myanmarese territory would not beryllium allowed to usage against India's information interests, arsenic the 2 leaders held wide-ranging talks to boost bilateral ties successful trade, defence, and energy.
Aung Hlaing is connected a five-day travel to India. The sojourn comes little than 2 months aft helium became the President pursuing Myanmar's Parliamentary elections.
The elections were held successful December and January aft years of protests against the ruling military-junta that seized powerfulness successful a coup connected February 1, 2021 overthrowing the democratically elected authorities of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, responding to a question connected Suu Kyi, said the Prime Minister did rise the contented with the visiting President, and that the treatment was mostly successful the discourse of the bid process that has been underway successful Myanmar. Explaining India's accordant presumption connected the issue, the overseas caput added that India has been supporting enduring peace, inclusion, and the request to person each stakeholders astatine the table.
"It was a spot of a free-wheeling discussion. I should underline that our engagement with Myanmar is not intended to beryllium a commentary connected the interior governmental statement successful that country," helium said.
Mr. Misri said the talks betwixt the 2 sides focused connected the full gamut of bilateral issues that included commercialized and economical ties, defence and information related issues, borderline management, improvement assistance arsenic good arsenic the determination situation.
Both sides expressed involvement successful forging person cooperation, peculiarly successful areas of commercialized and investment, health, education, energy, and captious technologies similar artificial intelligence.
"The premier curate reaffirmed India's enactment for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Myanmar and some sides underscored the value of preventing the misuse of sovereign territory for activities inimical to their information interests," the overseas caput said.
"The President of Myanmar, successful particular, reiterated the assurance that Myanmar's territory would not beryllium permitted to beryllium utilized against India's information interests," helium added.
Myanmar is 1 of India's strategical neighbours and it shares a 1,640-kilometer-long borderline with a fig of northeastern states including militancy-hit Nagaland and Manipur.
"Overall, this sojourn by the Myanmar President has erstwhile again reaffirmed the shared committedness of some sides to deepen their long-standing concern and to enactment unneurotic for communal benefit, maturation and prosperity successful the region," Mr. Misri said.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval connected Sunday met Aung Hlaing and discussed cardinal issues relating to bilateral ties.
The Myanmarese person is accompanied by a high-level delegation comprising respective Cabinet Ministers, elder officials and concern leaders.
Aung Hlaing was earlier scheduled to sojourn New Delhi to enactment successful the International Big Cat Alliance Summit connected June 1, which has been deferred.
The Myanmarese President volition besides question to Mumbai connected June 2 for concern and manufacture interactions and tract visits.
