New speaker Khin Aung Myint ready to work with NLD

02 January 2016
New speaker Khin Aung Myint ready to work with NLD
U Khin Aung Myint. Photo: EPA

Current House of Nationalities Speaker Khin Aung Myint, who was reelected from Mandalay Region No. 8,is ready to work with the incoming NLD government in 2016.
“I am ready for cooperation with them,” he told Mizzima.
He said his New Year wish for the country is that it “will be peaceful, developed and prosperous in the New Year.”
Speaker Khin Aung Myint is one of the 11 candidates of the Union Solidarity and Development Party who won in the recent elections to the Upper House.
Regarding the two Myanmar migrant workers who were sentenced to death by a Thai court on December 24, Khin Aung Myint said he wished them justice, adding that he was “monitoring the situation.”The case will be appealed by the Thai Lawyers Council.
Khin Aung Myint was born in 1946 in Phayagalay village, Bago Region, and earned a B.A. degree from Yangon University in 1967. He received a diploma in defense security from the State Defense University in 1997.
He served in the Ministry of Defense from 1965 to 1997, where he was second-in-command of a Light Infantry Division, and from 1997 to 2006 he served in the Directorate of Public Relations and Psychological Warfare Department with the rank of Maj. Gen.
He retired from the army in October 2006 and served in the Ministry of Culture for four years from 2006 to 2010.
He contested in the general election in 2010 as the USDP candidate from Mandalay Region No. 8 and won.
(A video file of the interview is posted on the Mizzima Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MizzimaDaily/)