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Posted: 15 May 2012 1326 hrs ...
SEOUL: Myanmar has
promised to comply with UN resolutions targeting North Korea's weapons
programmes, a Seoul official said Tuesday, following suspicions of
military collaboration in recent years.
The Seoul presidential
spokeswoman was speaking from the Southeast Asian nation after a summit
Monday between visiting South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak and
Myanmar's President Thein Sein.
Myanmar has also agreed to free a
North Korean refugee serving a five-year prison term since 2010 for
illegally entering the country, the spokeswoman said.
Lee is the
first South Korean leader to visit the nation formerly known as Burma
since a predecessor narrowly escaped a North Korean assassination
attempt in 1983.
A bomb planted by a Pyongyang agent missed then-president Chun Doo-Hwan but killed 17 other South Koreans plus four locals.
Myanmar
angrily broke ties with the North after that incident but restored them
in 2007. Reports of military cooperation since then had been a cause
for concern for Seoul in the past.
Thein Sein on Monday denied
any nuclear cooperation with Pyongyang, and said his country would abide
by UN Security Council resolutions on the North's nuclear and missile
programmes, the Seoul spokeswoman told AFP by phone.
The resolutions also ban weapons exports by the North.
The
Myanmar leader has previously denied any nuclear cooperation with the
North. He has won international praise for a series of sweeping
political and economic reforms since taking office last year.
At
Monday's meeting Lee offered to expand grants and development loans and
start programmes to share his country's economic development experience.
The
two leaders agreed to expand cooperation in energy and resources
development and infrastructure construction in Myanmar, the spokeswoman
said.
- AFP/cc
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1201356/1/.html
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Myanmar to observe UN N. Korea resolutions: Seoul
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