Important facts extracted from Army Chief's speech at EEF
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Tun MT (NP News) - Sep 9
Key points from Chairman of State Administration Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing at the Eastern Economic Forum:
Global food security is getting highly demanded among nations in accordance with rising world populations.
Myanmar possesses more than 13 million hectares of agricultural lands together with forests and water resources where rice, beans and pulses, corns, sesames, and cotton can be well grown.
Friendly big nations are requested to provide assistance and investments to Myanmar so as to produce double productivity in agriculture to have safe, quality, and hygienic food.
When countries purchase food products from foreign countries it becomes a threat to the financial security of the relevant State as the great nations bully the small ones financially.
Currency replacement should be considered in the global trade trend and should be replaced with rubles, yuans, or rupees to assist the eastern countries in awake of politically, militarily, and economically bound by the Western group.
The dollar becomes a manipulation tool when small nations have concerned the financial security.
Then, it makes them couldn’t go against what is commanded by the greater in politics, and social and economic issues of the relevant State.
There are 51 offshore blocks in the oil and natural gas sector in Myanmar. Gas found in the eight blocks has already been extracted and sold domestically or exported to foreign countries.
Myanmar has found a two trillion cubic feet deposit of gas and has discovered another potentiality of a huge deposit of gas. There will be better potentialities in the energy sector within the next three years.
Potential investors are invited to invest in the oil and natural gas sectors, mining, energy, and renewable energy sectors, and the development of the infrastructure of Myanmar.
Friendly, trustworthy, and strategic coordination among Asian countries and Russia should be promoted for moving toward a multi-polar world order.
A short route, it may be a part of or connected with China’s Belt and Road Initiatives, from the ASEAN region to Russia passing through South Asian countries, the gulf region, and Asia mainland is essentially required in this global situation.