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India signs four economic agreements with Myanmar
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....ndia signs four economic agreements with Myanmar <br>News and Press Release<br>Dated:- 25-6-2008<br><BR>India signs four economic agreements with Myanmar India and Myanmar today signed four economic cooperation agreements demonstrating the expanding partnership between the two countries. The agreements were signed in the Myanmarese capital in the presence of the Union Minister of State for Commer....
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....ce and Power, Shri Jairam Ramesh and the Myanmar Minister for National Planning and Economic Development, Mr. U Soe Tha. He also called on the Myanmar Minister for Commerce Brig. General Tin Naing Thein and the Minister for Electric Power, U Zaw Min. The first agreement is the Bilateral Investment Promotion Agreement (BIPA) between the two governments designed to facilitate greater Indian invest....
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....ment in Myanmar and vice versa. The Agreement, the 71st of its kind that India has entered into, provides a framework for the resolution of disputes, for promotion and protection of investment, for extending national treatment and most-favoured-nation treatment, for repatriation of investment and returns and for entry and sojourn of technical and managerial personnel. The second agreement is a c....
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....redit line agreement between the Exim Bank of India and the Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank for $ 64 million for financing three 230 kv transmission lines in Myanmar to be executed by the Power Grid Corporation of India. The third agreement is a credit line agreement between the Exim Bank of India and the Myanmar Trade Bank for $ 20 million for financing the establishment of an aluminium conductor st....
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....eel reinforced (ACSR) wire manufacturing facility to be used for expansion of the power distribution network in Myanmar. The fourth agreement is between the United Bank of India and the Myanmar Economic Bank for providing the banking arrangement for the implementation of the border trade agreement between the two governments that takes place at Moreh (in Manipur) at present. Shri Jairam Ramesh a....
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....lso took up the expansion of border trade centres to include Avangkhu and Lungwa in Nagaland, Zowkhathar in Mizoram, Pangsau Pass in Arunachal Pradesh and Behiang, Skip and Tusom in Manipur. In addition, he informed the Myanmarese Minister for Commerce that India would like to see normal trade at the border and not have it restricted only to specified items like at present in Moreh where trade onl....
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....y in 22 specified items is permitted. Shri Jairam Ramesh also expressed India's great interest in participating in developing the hydel power potential on the Chindwin River in Myanmar and hoped that preliminary work on identifying and detailing these projects would commence soon. India is already developing hydel projects in Bhutan and recently Indian private companies have won contracts to dev....
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....elop hydel projects in Nepal also. India's investment in hydel power in Myanmar would bring significant benefit to both countries.<BR> News - Press release - PIB....