Chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC) Senior General Min Aung Hlaing delivered a speech to senior officer instructors and senior officer trainees of the National Defence College through videoconferencing on February 27.
In his speech, he said that although only senior military officers were selected to attend the National Defence College in the past, now senior civilian officers are also chosen to attend the same course. If nobody thoroughly carries out their tasks without political, economic, and administrative and defence outlooks, these tasks will be requirements for the State. Departmental heads must be capable of serving their duties with these four outlooks. Trainees have to discuss with each other and study for the whole year, so it is a valuable training course. As such, they have to try hard to benefit the State. Trainees have to push hard to contribute to themselves and the State through their experiences.
Myanmar is a sovereign nation with water and land territories under a strong historical background. Although the country gained development in relevant eras, it gradually lags behind the development of contemporary countries and some neighbouring countries. In the mathematics and industrial technology of the education sector, the country faces many weak points, and it is far from other countries. Therefore, he urged all to discover lessons based on the aforesaid points for the sake of the nation.
Afterwards, he explained that the colonialists invaded Myanmar to take out natural resources and independence struggle of the Myanmar people, competition of socialists and capitalists in the pre- and post-independence periods, ethnic armed conflicts triggered by instigation of colonialist government and different political doctrines and economic policies, occurrences of unrests and uprisings due to weakness in management of the socialism with downtrend of the State economy, efforts of the Tatmadaw for taking the State responsibilities in September 1988 due to deterioration of sovereignty of the nation.
Later, he added the endeavors of initiating the multiparty democratic system the people aspire to, drawing the Constitution in conformity with the democratic system, discussions of people from all walks of life to draft the Constitution at the National Convention, approval of the Constitution (2008) through the referendum, serving the State responsibilities by the State Administration Council under the Constitution (2008) due the fact that the voting fraud could not be solved in the 2020 multiparty democratic general election, implementation of two political and national visions each by SAC, continuous walking on the path to the multiparty democratic system, preparations to hold a free and fair election, implementing the missions and visions for development of the nation, turning out the educated citizens, and future plans to fortify political, economic and military might for the State.
Present on the occasion were SAC Vice-Chairman Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Soe Win, Chief of the General Staff (Army, Navy and Air) General Maung Maung Aye, senior military officers from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army), the commandant of the college, senior officer instructors and senior officer trainees.
