12 August
U Tun Tun Oo, Union-Attorney General, attended the signing ceremony and conference of Singapore Convention on Mediation from 6 to 9 August.
During his visit in the city state, the Union-Attorney General held talks with President of ASEAN Law Association and Chief Justice of Singapore Mr Sundaresh Menon about promoting cooperation among ASEAN legal experts and better collaboration in regional and international legal affairs, the undertakings of national committee that was formed after Myanmar has joined the ASEAN Law Association in 2012, and the reformation of High Court Lawyers Council.
U Tun Tun Oo also met with Mr K Shanmugam, Minister for Home Affairs and Minister for Law to discuss the ongoing cooperation between the Office of Union-Attorney General and the Singaporean Law Ministry, human resource development programmes and the future collaboration schemes. Myanmar’s Union-Attorney General also visited the Attorney-General and the Deputy Attorney-General of Singapore for discussions about training programmes for Myanmar legal officers from the UAGO at the Office of Chief Attorney-General in Singapore, the ongoing courses for capacity building for legal affairs and the future plans of the UAGO.—MNA (Translated by Aung Khin)
