Ceremony for the Deposit
of the Instrument of Ratification for the ASEAN Charter by
Myanmar and Press Conference for the Release of the Post-Nargis Joint
Assessment (PONJA) Report - July 21, 2008
The Protocol Department of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted permission to 29 Diplomats of
Foreign Embassies in Myanmar and the News and Periodicals Enterprise of
the Ministry of Information to 5 members of Myanmar Foreign
Correspondents Club and 5 local journalists to observe the court hearing
to the Criminal Case Numbers 47/2009, 48/2009 and 49/2009 to the Yangon
North District Court. With the permission, the Ambassadors, the Charge'
d' Affaires ad interim and diplomats from the embassies in Yangon of
Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, the People's
Republic of China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel,
Italy, Japan, North Korea Democratic People's Republic, the People's
Republic of Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, the
Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Thailand, Britain,
the United States of America, and Vietnam as well as the resident
representative of UNDP totaling 29, 5 correspondents and 5 local
journalists observed the examination to prosecution witness Police
captain Tin Zaw Tun of Bahan Township Police Force. Next, the diplomats
of Singapore, Russian Federation and Thailand met Daw Aung San Su Kyi at
the Officer Mess of the Prison Department from 2:15 to 2:40pm. During
the meeting, Daw Aung San Su Kyi told the diplomats that she was in good
health and convenient accommodation was provided. Concerning Mr. John
William Yettaw's intrusion to her house, she helped him based on the
humanitarian ground, and Mr. John William Yettaw will be taken action
according to the law. Daw Aung San Su Kyi was kept at the Officer Mess
of the Prison Department. Prison's Department Medical Superintendent and
doctors are assigned to closely attend to her daily medical needs. In
the morning of 20th May, two physicians and one heart specialist for
Yangon General Hospital together with the doctors of Prison Department
provided health care. Concerning the secret entry of Mr. John William
Yettaw to Daw Aung San Su Kyi's house from 3rd to 5th May, the court
hearing to four persons including Daw Aung San Su Kyi will continue.
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