28 December 2022
US President Joe Biden on 23 December 2022 signed the National Defense Authorization Act–NDAA for fiscal year 2023 in to law, adding BURMA Act of 2022. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar released a statement on BURMA Act of 2022 that is added in the National Defense Authorization Act–NDAA.
The MOFA sent diplomatic letter via Myanmar Embassy in Washington DC stated that the descriptions in connection with Myanmar in the National Defense Authorization Act–NDAA made interfering in internal affairs of Myanmar, encroachment on Myanmar sovereignty and encouragement the terrorism by providing aids to NUG, NUCC, CRPH and PDF, Myanmar government is conducting humanitarian tasks, Myanmar opposes US’s funding to Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar – IIMM, this action violates the UN charter and provisions of Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Moreover, the Chargé d’Affaires’ of Myanmar Embassy contacted to the Director responsible for Myanmar, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of US on 16 December 2022 and officially opposed against the act.
The director- general of Strategic Studies and Training Department summoned Ms.Deborah C.Lynn, deputy head of US embassy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Yangon) on 16 December 2022.
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