Meeting with Acting President of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing

Taking part in the conversation on the Russian side were Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maxim Oreshkin Oreshkin MaximDeputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office , Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office - Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov Peskov DmitryDeputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office, Presidential Press Secretary , Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov Ushakov YuryAide to the President , Finance Minister Anton Siluanov Siluanov AntonMinister of Finance of the Russian Federation , Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev Tsivilev SergeiMinister of Energy of the Russian Federation , Governor of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina Nabiullina ElviraGovernor of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) , Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Dmitry Shugayev, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko, Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin, Deputy Minister of Economic Development Vladimir Ilyichev, and Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom Alexei Likhachev Likhachev AlexeiDirector General of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom .

Earlier that day, Vladimir Putin, Min Aung Hlaing and other leaders attended a meeting of the Global Atomic Forum.

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Beginning of Russia-Myanmar talks

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr President, friends,

We are delighted to see you and to welcome you to Moscow.

Our relations have been developing for many decades. We established diplomatic relations more than 70 years ago.

During your visit in March, we signed a package of documents, and our two governments are hard at work to implement our agreements.

Today, we have an opportunity to compare notes and to review our progress in all these spheres.

We are delighted to see you. Welcome.

Acting President of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing (retranslated): Mr President,

I would like to begin by thanking you for taking the time to meet with me despite your packed schedule. I am also grateful to you for inviting me to take part in the Global Atomic Week.

I have recently visited Moscow and attended a parade marking the 80^th anniversary of Victory.

Our countries established diplomatic relations 77 years ago.

The Embassy of Myanmar has been built in Moscow to promote closer relations between our countries. We have also opened consulates general in St Petersburg and Novosibirsk. I would like to inform you about our plans to open a consulate general of Myanmar in Vladivostok in the near future.

Russia is a big country. If we look east and west, we will see that you have a vast territory, which is why we are opening Myanmar's consulates general to promote cooperation between our countries.

I would like to thank you once again for your warm welcome and for receiving me in the Kremlin.

Vladimir Putin: We are delighted to welcome you.

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