{"id":3352,"date":"2024-01-17T08:18:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T08:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2024-01-17T08:19:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T08:19:03","slug":"u-thein-soe-chairman-of-the-union-election-commission-was-invited-by-the-ambassador-of-the-russian-federation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3352","title":{"rendered":"U Thein Soe (Chairman of the Union Election Commission) was invited by the Ambassador of the Russian Federation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>17 January 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U Thein Soe, Chairman of the Union Election Commission (UEC) of Myanmar, and Mr Iskander Azizov, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Myanmar, convened an important meeting at the UEC office in Nay Pyi Taw. This meeting underscored the 76-year longstanding diplomatic relations between Myanmar and Russia, dating back to 1948, and probed the prospects for further cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-17_11-28-21-1024x598.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3353\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-17_11-28-21-1024x598.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-17_11-28-21-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-17_11-28-21-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-17_11-28-21-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/photo_2024-01-17_11-28-21.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>U Thein Soe mentioned the UEC\u2019s visit to Russia in September 2023. This visit was part of a broader initiative to observe and learn from Russia\u2019s local elections, aiming to facilitate free and fair elections in Myanmar. This aligns with the State Administration Council\u2019s roadmap, which prioritizes democratic principles and processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 January 2024 U Thein Soe, Chairman of the Union Election Commission (UEC) of Myanmar, and Mr Iskander<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}