After Italy, Europe also is moving to strengthen relations with Myanmar, the Asian frontier. Two packed weeks of high level meetings in October marked the dynamism in Italian relations with Myanmar, and now it\u2019s Europe taking the initiative: an EU task force in Yangon led by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton and Vice President of the EU Commission Antonio Tajani, along with Commissioner for Development Andris Piebalgs and for Agriculture Dacian Ciolosto has been set up in support of Myanmar\u2019s democratic and economic transition. Three agreements were signed in the context of these latter prospects: one on SMEs, one on raw materials and one on tourism.<\/P>
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Political and economic development<\/STRONG><\/P> \u201cThe idea is to bring together economic, political and civil society leaders to show the importance we place not only on economic but also on political development\u201d in that country, said Ashton, who formally opened the task force\u2019s work session with the Burmese President.<\/P> Italy supports democratic transition<\/STRONG><\/P> On the occasion of the conference held at the foreign ministry on Myanmar, and of Minister Bonino\u2019s meetings with her Burmese colleague Wunna Maung Lwin and Burmese opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the minister confirmed Italy\u2019s solid friendship in the process of democratic transition the nation has launched and confirmed \u201cthe most support possible\u201d. During the conference, whose participants included ENI CEO Paolo Scaroni and Confindustria Technical Committee Chairman Paolo Zegna, prospects for collaboration to contribute to Myanmar\u2019s economic growth were examined.<\/P> \u201cGreat opportunity\u201d<\/STRONG><\/P> Myanmar is a \u201cgreat opportunity\u201d for European firms, said EU Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani, according to whom the opportunities for Italian firms were especially attractive in the agri-food and tourism sectors thanks to Italy\u2019s know-how and \u201cability to build hotels\u201d. \u201cThis is no small opportunity, and I believe that Italy has a role to play in that part of the world\u201d which, although still in the process of transition, can benefit from the capacity of Italian industry to \u201cknow how to adapt to different realities\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Italy, Europe also is moving to strengthen relations with Myanmar, the Asian frontier. Two packed weeks of high level meetings in October marked the dynamism in Italian relations with Myanmar, and now it\u2019s Europe taking the initiative: an EU task force in Yangon led by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton and […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,43],"class_list":["post-15214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-diritti-umani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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