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The Myanmar government has pledged to promote the government-corporate-society (GCS) partnership for water security and sustainable development.

The Myanmar Government has formed an advisory commission comprising domestic and foreign experts to implement recommendations on Rakhine-related issues set out in the final report of the Advisory Commission led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and the Maungtaw Investigation Commission.

The third meeting of the Union Peace Conference or the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference, will be held in the last week of January 2018, according to a decision of the Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting (JICM).

Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi will attend the upcoming Communist Party of China (CPC) in Dialogue with World Political Parties' High-Level Meeting in Beijing at the invitation of the Chinese Government, the Myanmar News Agency has reported.

Pope Francis arrived in Myanmar on November 27 for a historic visit to the Buddhist-majority country amid global concern over the fate of more than half a million Muslim Rohingya.

Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to take assistance from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC) to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Bangladesh to Myanmar.

The Government of Bangladesh announced on November 23 that its country and the neighbouring Myanmar have agreed on returning Rohingya Muslim refugees in two months.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has called on members of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) to take joint actions in order to better deal with current challenges.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh had separate meetings with Foreign Ministers of France, Luxembourg, Hungary, Finland, Romania and Germany in Nay Pyi Taw, on November 20.

The 13th ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (ASEM FMM13) opened in Myanmar’s capital city of Nay Pyi Taw on November 20 in preparation for the 12th ASEM Summit slated for October 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged the Governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar resolve the Rohingya crisis through bilateral negotiations instead of an international initiative.

China has proposed building an economic corridor with Myanmar to further enhance the bilateral comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he would not yet push for sanctions against Myanmar over the Rohingya crisis, but called for an investigation into the instability in the country.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Nay Pi Taw on November 15, beginning his visit to Myanmar – the final leg of his Asia tour.