📢The UK Presidency of the FATF under Giles Thomson kicks off today, committing to focus international efforts on collaboration and partnerships to fight crime and combat the global fraud epidemic.
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@SecLazaro It is indeed great pleasure to see both of you shaking hands with each other,your Excellency.
Although I have been enjoying my retirement peacefully I have to visit your lovely country for official visit and may I have a chance to pay my courtesy calls on you in Manila?
Increasingly the SAC-M and other "holier than thou" adversaries of the Myanmar military find themselves out on a limb, making impossible demands for "action" which will only be tossed into the digital rubbish bin.
Met the Ambassadors & High Commissioners of the Southeast Asia region(#ASEAN)over lunch today(22). We discussed possibilities to enhance tourism, opportunities to invest in #lka, sharing expertise in dev. the agricultural & education sects & enhancing exports to the ASEAN region.
2.4C warming is a death sentence for millions in Myanmar w/ cataclysmic impacts (storms like Cyclone Nargis which killed 140,000 in one night, drought,intolerable heat) coming within years, not decades. Myanmar state and society will simply not be able to cope, perhaps survive.
The status of the Myanmar Ambassador in London remains shrouded in mystery. There was a "holding" answer which was replaced by something more Delphic.
https://t.co/65UF60yIvM
As any student of international relations understands, you can only recognize one government at a time - in the case of Myanmar the SAC or NUG. Recognizing the NUG automatically means breaking diplomatic relations and closing Embassies in Myanmar. Utterly counterproductive!
As Myanmar reels from a military coup, former U.S. ambassador Derek Mitchell outlines why the U.S. and China have a shared interest in preventing further bloodshed. https://t.co/VkVg7mqbKk via @bopinion
Apart from @rshorsey scintillating presentation, little emerged from yesterday's informal Arria-formula meeting. https://t.co/iGvpHdfA1a Russia and China sent low level diplomats. The Russian spoke for 62 seconds, the Chinese for 94. Dr Sasa apparently not invited, or too busy.