YANGON, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) — Myanmar has established diplomatic ties with two more countries — Malawi and Bhutan at ambassadorial level in the start of 2012, according to official sources from Nay Pyi Taw Wednesday.
Two joint communiques on the establishment were respectively signed between Myanmar’s Ambassador and the High Commissioner of Malawi in New Delhi on Jan. 30 and between Permanent Representative of Myanmar to the United Nations and his Bhutan counterpart in New York on Feb. 1.
The diplomatic establishment with Malawi and Bhutan has brought the total number of countries in the world with which Myanmar has such links to 105 and 106 since it regained independence in 1948.
According to the Foreign Ministry, Myanmar has so far set up embassies in 30 countries and two permanent missions in New York and Geneva, and four consulates-general in China’s Hong Kong, Kunming and Nanning, and India’s Calcutta, respectively.
Meanwhile, 28 countries have their embassies in Myanmar. In addition, China and India have respectively set up consulates- general in Myanmar’s Mandalay, the second largest city, while Switzerland in Yangon and Bangladesh in Sittway.
