Kyaw Tin ( my, ကျော်တင်; born 31 October 1955) is former union minister for International Cooperation of Myanmar. He also served as deputy minister of Foreign Affairs under

Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi (; ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from ...

. As of November 2021, Kyaw Tin continued to be recognized by

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as Myanmar's foreign minister.

Early life and education

Kyaw Tin was born on 31 October 1955 in

Wuntho Wuntho ( my, ဝန်းသို) or Waing Hso ( shn, ဝဵင်းသိူဝ်) was a native state of Upper Burma when Burma (Myanmar), was under British control. It had an area of around with 150,000 inhabitants and lay midway between ...

Sagaing Division Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lon ...

. He graduated with a masters degree with Mathematics from

Yangon University '') , mottoeng = There's no friend like wisdom. , established = , type = Public , rector = Dr. Tin Mg Tun , undergrad = 4194 , postgrad = 5748 , city = Kamayut 11041, Yangon , state = Yangon Regio ...

and earned his post-graduate diploma in environmental management from

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Career

Foreign affairs

Kyaw Tin served in the foreign affairs services for approximately 30 years.

Minister

Kyaw Tin became the deputy minister of

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under

.In April 2016, Aung San Suu Kyi hold the post, State Counsellor.So she can't attend to some foreign ministers meetings. Kyaw Tin attended to the Foreign Meetings as deputy minister of Foreign Affairs.In 2017, Htin Kyaw formed the new ministry,

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and appointed Kyaw Tin as union minister.Since then Kyaw Tin attended to foreign ministers meetings as minister of International Cooperation. In the aftermath of the military-led

2021 Myanmar coup d'état A coup d'état in Myanmar began on the morning of 1 February 2021, when democratically elected members of the country's ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), were deposed by the Tatmadaw—Myanmar's military—which then veste ...

, the

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appointed

Ko Ko Hlaing Ko Ko Hlaing ( my, ကိုကိုလှိုင်, born 24 October 1956 in Myinmu) is a Burmese military researcher and writer, served under Thein Sein as the chief political advisor to the President's Office of Myanmar, after being appoint ...

as Kyaw Tin's successor for International Cooperation minister on 1 February 2021.

References

{{ASEAN Foreign Burmese diplomats Permanent Representatives of Myanmar to the United Nations Foreign ministers of Myanmar 1955 births Living people