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According to Sergei Shoigu, Russia is set for development of partnership, strengthening of the armed forces’ combat readiness

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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu© Mikhail Metzel/TASS

NAYPYIDAW /Myanmar/, January 20. /TASS/. Russia and Myanmar implement a large-scale plan for the bilateral military cooperation, Russia’ Defense Minister Sergei Shoigusaid on Saturday.

"We point to a positive dynamics of the cooperation between Russia and Myanmar in themilitary sphere, an additional impetus to which was given by the agreement on militarycooperation of 2016," he said during talks with Myanmar’s Commander-in-Chief of theArmed Forces Senior General Min Aung Hlaing on Saturday.

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According to the minister, Russia is set for development of partnership, strengthening ofthe armed forces’ combat readiness. The countries’ military support regular contacts, theminister added.

"We pay special attention to visits of the Russian military ships to Myanmar’s ports, andwe expect visits to Russia of the warships from Myanmar," Shoigu said.

In the past year, he continued, the military had many events, agreed big plans for furthercooperation.

Myanmar’s commander-in-chief expressed hope the military cooperation between Russiaand Myanmar would be growing.

Shoigu’s official visit began on Saturday with laying a wreath to the monument of fallenheroes and a bilateral meeting with Hlaing.

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႐ရား-ျမနမာ စစဘက ပးေပါငးေဆာငရြကေရး တးျမႇငမယ21 ဇနနဝါရ၊ 2018 ဗြအေအ (ျမနမာဌာန)

႐႐ား-ျမနမာ ႏစႏငငစစတပအၾကား ႀကးမားတ အတငးတာန႔ စစေရးဆငရာ ပးေပါငးေဆာငရြကမႈေတြ လပေဆာငသြားမယလ႔ ျမနမာႏ ငငမာ ေရာကေနတ ႐ရားကာကြယေရး၀နႀကး Sergei Shoigu က စေနေန႔မာေျပာတ အေၾကာငး ႐ရား TASS သတငးဌာနက ေဖာ ျပပါတယ။

႐႐ားန႔ျမနမာ ႏစႏငင စစဘကအၾကား အေပါငးလကၡဏာေဆာငတ ပးေပါငးေဆာငရြကမႈေတြ ႐ေနတာက ျမငထားရေၾကာငး၊ ႏစႏငင စစတပၾကား ပးေပါငးေဆာငရြကေရး ၂၀၁၆ သေဘာတညခကက ပၿပး တြနးအားျဖစေစမာျဖစေၾကာငး ျမနမာ တပမေတာ ကာကြယေရးဦးစးခပ ဗလခပမႉးႀကး မငးေအာငလႈငန႔ စေနေန႔က ေတြ႔ဆစဥမာ ႐ရားကာကြယေရး၀နႀကး Shoigu က အဒလေျပာတာပါ။

႐ရားကာကြယေရး၀နႀကး Shoigu က ဗလခပမႉးႀကး မငးေအာငလႈငက ေနျပညေတာ မာ ဂဏျပတပဖြ႔န႔ႀကဆခၿပး သတ႔ႏစဦးရ႕ေဆြးေႏြးပြအတြငး ႏစႏငငစစတပၾကား စစဘကနညးပညာ ပးေပါငး ေဆာငရြကေရးကစၥ အပါအဝင၊ ေလကငေရးဆငရာ ပးေပါငးေဆာငရြကမႈေတြ၊ ေရတပႏစခအၾကား စစသေဘၤာေတြ အျပနအလနလညပတေရး၊ တပမေတာ ႏစရပၾကား ခစၾကညေရးခရး အျပနအလန လညပတေရးန႔ ခစၾကညရငးႏးမႈတးျမႇငဖ႔တ႔က ေဆြးေႏြးခေၾကာငး ျမနမာ တပမေတာ ကာကြယေရး ဦးစးခပ႐းကလညး သတငးထတျပနပါတယ။

႐ရားကာကြယေရး၀နႀကး Shoigu ရ႕အဆအရ ႐႐ားန႔ျမနမာ ႏစႏငငစစတပၾကား ပးေပါငးေဆာငရြကေရးန႔ဆကဆေရး တးျမငဖ႔အတြက ႐႐ားဘကက အဆငသငျဖစေနေၾကာငး ေျပာဆသလ ႏစဘကစစတပၾကားပမနအဆကအသြယေတြ ရေနတယလ႔လညး Shoigu က ေျပာပါတယ။

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ျမနမာႏငငက အေလးထားတ အေနန႔ ႐႐ားစစသေဘၤာေတြ ျမနမာႏငငဆပကမးထ လာေရာကလညပတဖ႔႐သလ ျမနမာ စစသေဘၤာေတြအေနန႔လညး ႐ရာႏငငက လာေရာကလညပတလမမယလ႔ ေမ ာ လငေၾကာငး၀နႀကး Shoigu က ေျပာပါတယ။

ျမနမာ တပမေတာ န႔ ႐ရားဖကဒေရးရငးႏငင တပမေတာ တ႔ၾကား စစေရးပးေပါငးေဆာငရြကမႈဆငရာ သေဘာတစာခပတရပက ကာကြယေရး ၀နႀကးဌာန ဒ၀နႀကး ဗလခပျမငႏြယန႔ ႐ရား ဒကာကြယေရး၀နႀကး ဒဗလခပႀကး Alexander V. Fomin တ႔ လကမတေရးထးခတယလ႔ ျမနမာ တပမေတာ က သတငးထတျပနပါတယ။

ၿပးခတ ႏစေတြအတြငး လပေဆာငခကအမားအျပားရခၿပးေတာ ေနာကထပပးေပါငးေဆာငရြကဖ႔ အစအစဥႀကးေတြလ ရထားတယလ႔ ႐ရား ကာကြယေရး၀နႀကးကဆပါတယ။

ဗလခပမႉးႀကး မငးေအာငလႈငကလညး ႐႐ား-ျမနမာ ႏစႏငင စစေရး ပးေပါငးေဆာငရြကမႈ ပတးလာဖ႔ ေမ ာလငတယလ႔ေျပာေၾကာငး TASS သတငးမာေဖာ ျပထားပါတယ။ စေနေန႔မာ စတငခတ ႐ရားကာကြယေရး၀နႀကး Shoigu ရ႕ျမနမာျပည ခရးစဥအတြငး ကဆးစစသညေတြအတြက လြမးသ႔ပနးေခြခပါတယ။

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An intergovernmental agreement on simplified procedure for calls of warships to the ports of Russia and Myanmar was reached on Saturday after talks between Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoiguand the commander-in-chief of the Myanmar Armed Forces Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.

The agreement was part of moves to extend military cooperation between the two nations, and Shoigu says the nations are ready to implement a large-scale bilateral military cooperation plan.

"We point to a positive dynamics of the cooperation between Russia and Myanmar in the military sphere, an additional impetus to which was given by the agreement on military cooperation of 2016,"said Shoigu, General of the Army. Russian news agency TASS reports the minister saying that Russia is set to strengthen the armed forces’ combat readiness. The countries’ military support regularcontacts, he said. "We pay special attention to visits of the Russian military ships to Myanmar’s ports, and we expect visits to Russia of the warships from Myanmar," Shoigu said.

Shoigu also says Russia is ready to share its experience of fighting long-range unmanned aerial vehicles used for attacks by terrorists in Syria with Myanmar. “There is a new terrorist threat evolved inSyria – unmanned aerial vehicles that can operate at a range of over 100 kilometers (62 miles).” He pointed out that such terrorist attacks can happen elsewhere, not only in Syria.

Shoigu is visiting Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam during a working trip to Southeast Asia from January 20 to 23.

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Russia and Myanmar sign agreement on militarycooperationMilitary & Defense June 16, 2016, 15:06

The document envisages cooperation in the navy sphere, military education and other promising spheres

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Myanmar military tanks© EPA/HEIN HTET

MOSCOW, June 16. /TASS/. The defense ministries of Russia and Myanmar have signedan agreement on military cooperation, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonovsaid on Thursday.

"A very serious step has been made toward the development of bilateral militarycooperation. We are establishing a predictable legal basis for promising long-termcooperation between our countries. Over the last several years, a lot has been done indeveloping military and military-technical cooperation. I think that our document will serveas an additional impetus to developing multifaceted cooperation," Antonov said.

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According to the deputy defense minister, the agreement outlines cooperation in the navysphere, hydrography, topography, military medicine, military education and other promisingspheres of military cooperation. He noted that now the two countries "will have enoughinstruments to do everything possible to strengthen combat readiness of the Armed Forcesof Myanmar and Russia."

Myanmar’s Defense Minister Myint New in turn noted that the two countries are bound bylong-term friendly relations. "We want to strengthen and develop these relations in thefuture. At the current stage, we approached the issue of signing an agreement with fullreadiness, it was coordinated at all levels, including in the parliament," he said. Thedefense minister stressed that Myanmar sees great prospects in the sphere of navycooperation with Russia.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that the agreement also envisages exchanginginformation on international security issues, including fight against terrorism, cooperation inthe sphere of culture and vacation of servicemen and their families, along with exchangingexperience in peacekeeping activities.

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Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Russia's predominantly Muslim Chechnya to protest what the Chechen leader called "genocide ofMuslims" in Myanmar © AP

Kathrin Hille in MoscowSEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman ruler of Chechnya, has challenged the Russian government’spolicy on Myanmar because of Yangon’s persecution of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.

Mr Kadyrov also presided over a massive rally in Grozny, the Chechen capital, at which there was acall for jihadist fighters to be sent to the south-east Asian country.

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Chechen ruler hits out at Russia over Myanmar policy

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His threat highlights the fragility of Moscow’s control over Chechnya, the tense North Caucasusterritory over which it fought two bloody wars.

Chechnya has been kept quiet over the past decade only thanks to a deal under which Mr Kadyrovreceives generous financial support from Moscow and a free hand to run the republic as a personalfiefdom in exchange for loyalty to president Vladimir Putin.

“If even Russia will support those [devils] who commit crimes, I am against the position of Russia,because I have my own view, my own position,” Kadyrov said in a 30 minute video messagepublished on social media on Monday. He called the suppression of the Rohingya a genocide andcursed those who commit crimes against Muslims.

Hundreds have died over the past week amid aninsurgency in northwestern Myanmar where theRohingya live. Tens of thousands have fled toneighbouring Bangladesh.

Russia, along with China, has been opposinginternational proposals to condemn or sanction theMyanmar government over its handling of the crisis.

Mr Kadyrov said in his video address that it wasimpossible to intervene with troops because this wasthe prerogative of the state. “But if it were up to me, ifthere was the possibility, I would hit there even withnuclear [weapons], simply eradicate those peoplewho kill children, women, old people.”

Mr Kadyrov’s threat was underpinned by a rallyorganised by his government and attended by him

If even Russia will supportthose [devils] who commitcrimes, I am against theposition of Russia, because Ihave my own view, my ownposition

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and the entire Chechen leadership on Monday. Regional authorities said more than 1m peopleattended.

A preacher addressing the crowd said that if it was up to him, Chechnya would send an immensearmy of fighters to Myanmar. “Each of those warriors loves death more, much more, than theirmiserable lives,” he said.

The threats triggered an outcry among members of the Russian opposition.

“We have created in Russia and are sponsoring with tax money an extremist Islamist regime whichis threatening the world with an army of suicide bombers,” opposition leader Alexei Navalny wroteon Twitter.

Mr Kadyrov’s address came a day after hundreds ofMuslims gathered for an unsanctioned protestoutside Myanmar’s embassy in Moscow on Sunday.

Riot police watched but did not break up thedemonstration, although holding such rallies withoutgovernment approval is illegal in Russia.

Mr Kadyrov praised a move by Turkish presidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan to accuse Yangon of genocideagainst the Rohingya, and raise the issue at the UNGeneral Assembly later this month. “Erdogan’sposition is the best and most open one, we supportit,” Mr Kadyrov said.

“We have created in Russiaand are sponsoring with taxmoney an extremist Islamistregime which is threateningthe world with an army ofsuicide bombers

Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader

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Myanmar–Russiarelations

Myanmar

Russia

Myanmar–Russia relationsMyanmar–Russia relations refers to bilateral relations between Myanmar and Russia. Myanmar has an

embassy in Moscow whilst Russia has an embassy in Yangon.

History

Agreements

Nuclear cooperation

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References

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Russia had established diplomatic relations with Myanmar, when it became independent and it remained even today after the fall of the Soviet Union. China and

Russia once vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution designed to punish Myanmar.[1][2] In recent years, China has shown a lack of willingness to back the

Myanmar government and has attempted to stabilize the political situation in Myanmar.[1]

In June 2016, the two countries signed a defence cooperation agreement.[3] Min Aung Hlaing and Sergei Shoigu announced their intention to expand military

cooperation in a 2018 meeting.[4]

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In 2007, Russia and Myanmar did a controversial nuclear research center deal. According to the press release, "The centre will comprise a 10MW light-water

reactor working on 20%-enriched uranium-235, an activation analysis laboratory, a medical isotope production laboratory, silicon doping system, nuclear waste

treatment and burial facilities".[5]

Foreign relations of Myanmar

Foreign relations of Russia

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Washington Post. 13 January 2007. Retrieved 30 May 2008.3. http://www.defenseworld.net/news/16368/Russia__Myanmar_Sign_Military_Cooperation_Agreement#.WZqBN_yCq54. "Russian defense minister points to Russia-Myanmar developing military cooperation" (http://tass.com/defense/986024). TASS. January 20, 2018. "Russia

and Myanmar implement a large-scale plan for the bilateral military cooperation, Russia’ Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Saturday."5. "Russia and Burma in nuclear deal" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6658713.stm). BBC News. 15 May 2007.

(in Russian) Documents on the Myanmar–Russia relationship at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (http://www.mid.ru/ns-rasia.nsf/strana?OpenView&Start=1&Count=30&Expand=25#25)

(in English) (in Burmese) (in Russian) Embassy of Russia in Yangon (http://www.rusembmyanmar.org/)

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