BBC News: “Manmohan Singh has held talks with Burmese President Thein Sein as he makes the first official visit to Burma by an Indian prime minister since 1987. The two sides signed 12 agreements to strengthen trade and diplomatic ties. During his three-day trip, Mr Singh will meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose mother once served as Burma’s ambassador to India.
The two nations share a 1,600km (1,000 mile) border, but relations have often been uneasy. On Monday, they signed agreements on border area development, air services, cultural exchanges, a $500m credit line between India’s Export-Import Bank and Myanmar [Burma] Foreign Trade bank, and establishment of a joint trade and investment forum, the BBC’s Sanjoy Majumder reports from the Burmese capital, Nay Pyi Taw.
Delhi cold-shouldered Burma’s military rulers during the 1990s, infuriating the generals by openly supporting Ms Suu Kyi. But Mr Singh, who arrived in the Burmese capital on Sunday, has overseen a dramatic turnaround in Delhi’s policy, and hosted former ruler Than Shwe on a state visit in 2010. Earlier, on his arrival in Burma, Mr Singh said: “I am coming here after 25 years when the last prime minister of India visited here. We have centuries-old ties of religion, culture and civilisation with the people of Myanmar. He had earlier said he wanted “stronger trade and investment links, development of border areas, improving connectivity between our two countries and building capacity and human resources”.”
via BBC News – India PM Manmohan Singh in historic Burma visit.
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