December 20
State Administration Council Member Deputy Prime Minister Union Minister for Defence Admiral Tin Aung San, Chairman of the Committee on the Prevention of Recruitment of Child Soldiers, presided over the committee’s 2/2023 meeting yesterday.
Speaking at the event, the Deputy Prime Minister said the government and CTFMR (Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting) signed the Plan of Action for preventing child soldier recruitment on 27 June 2012 to remove Tatmadaw (Army) from the list of the UN Secretary-General.
Tatmadaw discharged 1,057 child soldiers after signing the Plan of Action with CTFMR to date.
Moreover, Tatmadaw is recruiting newcomers in line with the committee’s prescriptions, laws, rules and regulations and CTFMR.
He added that education programmes are launched by cooperating with the ministries concerned, and the work progress will be reported to CTFMR.
Attendees then coordinated discussions before the committee chairman concluded the meeting. — MNA/KTZH
