YANGON, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Vice-Chairman of the Myanmar StatePeace and Development Council (SPDC) Vice Senior-General Maung Ayewill pay an official visit to India in the near future, said an official announcement from Nay Pyi Taw Sunday without specifying the date of his visit.
Expected in a few days, the visit of Maung Aye, who is also Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Services and Commander-in-Chief of the Army, will be his second since 2000.
Invited by Indian Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Maung Aye's forthcoming visit, which also comes more than three years after that to New Delhi by Myanmar's SPDC Chairman Senior-General Than Shwe in 2004, is expected to be highlighted by the signing ofa 130 million U.S. dollars' Kaladan multi-modal transport project to provide alternate route for transporting goods to North East India bypassing Bangladesh, according to an earlier report of Indian press media PTI.
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