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2nd General Meeting of Myanmar Civil Societies Core Group on ASEAN (MSCSGA)

The 2nd General meeting of MCSCGA was organised on 23rd October 2017 at Central Hotel, Yangon. The meeting brought together more than 50 leading CSO representatives from around the country to discuss ASEAN from the perspective of the civil society.

Group photo of the participants

Participants of the 2nd General meeting of the Myanmar Civil Societies Core Group on ASEAN

The General Meeting started with a welcoming speech by Co-chair of MCSCGA U Ngwe Thein followed by a special talk by U Tun Ohn, Political Advisor of the Hanns Seidel Foundation. U Aung Myo Min, Advisor of MCSCGA, talked on the Engagement of CSOs and ASEAN. After which he led a session on the current situation in Rakhine State. The objective of this was to set a common stand of CSOs on this issue, especially at times of crisis like this.

Daw Thin Nwe Soe led the participants through the 4-day program of the ACSC/APF 2017. Daw Tin Tin Htwe who is currently Senior Advisor at Parami Energy Group of Companies and a retired government official gave a talk on AEC and Corporate Greed. Corporate Greed and Power is one of the 5 Convergence Spaces on which the ACSC/APF 2017 is structured. The other themes are: Labour mobility and mixed migration, Peace and Security, Human Rights and Access to Justice and Life with Dignity. The objective was to give potential participants of the ACSC/APF 2017 the salient points to enable dynamic discussion.

A speaker standing in front of the participants delivering his talk

Political Advisor of HSF U Tun Ohn held a special talk at the start of the meeting on the importance of CSOs engagement and ASEAN

HSF will also support Myanmar CSO delegation team to participate in ACSC/APF 2017 next month in Manila, the Philippines.

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