Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Myanmar’s Senior General and Acting President, Min Aung Hlaing, in Tianjin on Sunday. The meeting took place ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit.
This was their first meeting since April, when they last spoke at the BIMSTEC Summit in Bangkok, Thailand.
Notably, Myanmar’s military government has announced long-overdue elections on December 28.
Election announcement:Myanmar to hold elections on December 28
These will be the first elections in nearly five years after a coup in 2021 ousted an elected civilian government led by Nobel laureate and daughter of the late Aung San, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Aung San was a revolutionary and the former Prime Minister of British Burma, who was assassinated six months before the country’s independence.
