Kyaw Tint Swe ( my, ကျော်တင့်ဆွေ; born 19 March 1945) is a Burmese politician and former Minister for the Office of the

State Counsellor of Myanmar The state counsellor of Myanmar ( my, နိုင်ငံတော်၏ အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ်) was the title of the ''de facto'' head of government of Myanmar, equivalent to a prime minister. The office ...

Career

Kyaw Tint Swe joined the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support for a country's citizens who are abroad. The entit ...

in 1968 and served in various positions in the embassies of Myanmar in

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and

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. From 1990 to 1993, and from 1997 to 2001, he served as Secretary of Myanmar’s National Commission for Environmental Affairs. He also served as Chairman of the Senior Officials for the Environment for the

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(ASEAN), From 2001 to 2010, he served as the Ambassador of Myanmar to the

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. He also served as Vice-Chairman of the

Myanmar National Human Rights Commission The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission ( my, မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ အမျိုးသားလူ့အခွင့်အရေး ကော်မရှင်, abbreviated MNHRC) is the independent national human right ...

from 2011 to 2013. In 2013, he worked closely with

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 ...

on the

Letpadaung Copper Mine The Letpadaung Copper Mine ( my, လက်ပံတောင်းတောင် ကြေးနီသတ္တုတွင်း) is a large surface mine in the Salingyi Township of Sagaing Region of Myanmar. Since Myanmar began liberalizing in ...

Investigation Commission.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kyaw Tint Swe Burmese diplomats Permanent Representatives of Myanmar to the United Nations University of Yangon alumni 1945 births Living people