
New Delhi:India and Myanmar are expected to ink a number of agreements and deliberate on key issues including exodus of Rohingya community during Prime Minister NarendraModi visit to the neighbouring country Myanmar starting from September 5.
Ways to deepen security and defence cooperation, implementation of India-assisted development projects and the issue of cross border activities by certain insurgent groups along the Indo-Myanmar are likely to figure during Modis talks with leadership of the country during the three-day visit.
On September 6, the Prime Minister will hold wide-ranging talks with State CounsellorAung San SuuKyi covering entire expanse of bilateral relationship, SripriyaRanganathan, joint secretary in-charge of Bangladesh and Myanmar in the External Affairs Ministry, said.
She said the spate of violence in MyanmarsRakhine state and exodus of the ethnic Rohingya minority will figure in the talks.
The Prime Minister will travel to Nay Pyi Taw, the capital city of Myanmar, from China where he will attend the annual BRICS summit. On August 5, Modi will meet Myanmar President HtinKyaw who is also hosting a banquet for the Prime Minister, Ranganathan said.
From Nay Pyi Taw, Modi will proceed to an ancient city of Bagan where India is involved in development cooperation project, Ranganathan said.
He will then travel to Yangon where he will have a series of engagements including interaction with the Indian community.
In Yagon, the prime minister will visit the Shwedagon pagoda and will go to martyrs mausoleum to pay tribute to Gen Aung San, the Burmese nationalist leader who was assassinated. Gen. Aung is father of SuuKyi.
Modi will visit a famous Hindu temple and shrine of Bahadur Shah Zafar.