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YANGON, June 25 (Eleven Media Group/ANN): Myanmar has asked Thai authorities to arrest people who trade arms and ammunition Illegally, those who broke the rules and fled to Thailand and fugitives from Myanmar, according to Maessai News Agency based in Thailand.
97th Meeting of Thai-Myanmar Township Border Committee-TBC was held at the 1G1 hotel in Tachilek of eastern Shan State on June 19. The TBC meeting had been postponed due to Covid-19 outbreak.
Myanmar officials had attended the 97th TBC meeting. During the meeting, they urged the Thai authorities to help arrest of expatriates and fugitives from Myanmar.
The Maessai News Agency also reported that at TBC meeting, Thai authorities also demanded to remove five military bases of United Wa State Army (UWSA) stationed at the Thai-Myanmar border.
Moreover, both sides discussed about bilateral regional security and legal affairs, use of Mae Sai creek, prevention against the flood of Mae Sai creek and installation of flood warning machines.
Similarly, the officials from Myanmar and Thailand frankly discussed matters on cooperation of education, health and sports at the villages situated on Myanmar-Thai border area, vehicle smuggling by crossing the Mae Sai creek and drug dens between Tachilek district and Chiang Rai province. Eleven Media Group/ANN
