Kyaw Tin

Kyaw Tin
Kyaw Tin
ကျော်တင်
Union Minister of International Cooperation
	In office; 23 November 2017 – 1 February 2021
Deputy	Hau Do Suan (2020-2021)
Preceded by	position established
Succeeded by	Ko Ko Hlaing
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
	In office; 2016–2017
Minister	Aung San Suu Kyi
Preceded by	Tin Oo Lwin
Succeeded by	Kyaw Myo Htut
Myanmar ambassador to Canada
	In office; 19 April 2011 – 2013
Minister	Wunna Maung Lwin
Preceded by	Aye
Succeeded by	Hau Do Suan
Personal details
Born	October 31, 1955 (age 68); Wuntho, Sagaing Region
Nationality	Myanmar
Alma mater	Yangon University; Dresden University of Technology;

Kyaw Tin (Burmese: 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. As of November 2021, Kyaw Tin continued to be recognized by ASEAN as Myanmar's foreign minister.^[1]^[2]

Early life and education

Kyaw Tin was born on 31 October 1955 in Wuntho of Sagaing Division. He graduated with a masters degree with Mathematics from Yangon University and earned his post-graduate diploma in environmental management from Dresden University of Technology in Germany.

Career

Foreign affairs

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

Year	Duty
1982-1983	Chancellor in Canberra
1983-1984	Deputy Assistant Director of the International Organizations Division
1984-1986	Third Secretary at the New York Permanent Mission
1986-1987	Deputy Assistant Director of International Organizations and Economic Department
1987-1991	Second Secretary at the Embassy in Bangkok
1991-1994	head of Branch 1 of the International Organizations and Economic Department
1994-1997	First Secretary/Second Secretary at Myanmar's Permanent Mission in Geneva
1997-1999	Assistance Director of the International Organizations and Economic Department
1999- 2001	Deputy Director of the International Organizations and Economic Department
2001-2003	Deputy Chief of Mission/Counsellor in Jakarta
2003-2005	Counsellor at the Permanent Mission in New York
2005-2006	Director of the South and West Asia Division, Political Department of MOFA
2007- 2008	Deputy Director-General of Political Department of MOFA
2008-2011	Director -General of Political Department of MOFA
2011-2013	Ambassador of Myanmar to Canada
2013- ??	Permanent Representative of Myanmar to the United Nations

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Minister

Kyaw Tin became the deputy minister of Foreign Affairs under Aung San Suu Kyi.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, International Cooperation and appointed Kyaw Tin as union minister.Since then Kyaw Tin attended to foreign ministers meetings as minister of International Cooperation.^[5]

In the aftermath of the military-led 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, the Tatmadaw appointed Ko Ko Hlaing as Kyaw Tin's successor for International Cooperation minister on 1 February 2021.^[6]

References

^ "LIST OF ASEAN FOREIGN MINISTERS" (PDF). ASEAN. May 2021.
^ "Can ASEAN overcome the 'Myanmar curse'?". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
^ "New Burmese Ambassador to Canada: a messenger for new regime in Burma?". Archived from the original on 2021-05-11.
^ "New Permanent Representative of Myanmar Presents Credentials".
^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ရုံးဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှင့် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနတို့ကို တိုးချဲ့ဖွဲ့စည်းမည်" (in Burmese).
^ "Tatmadaw names new govt officials". The Myanmar Times. 2021-02-01. Archived from the original on 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-02-01.

[1] "LIST OF ASEAN FOREIGN MINISTERS" (PDF). ASEAN. May 2021.

[2] "Can ASEAN overcome the 'Myanmar curse'?". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 2022-08-04.

[3] "New Burmese Ambassador to Canada: a messenger for new regime in Burma?". Archived from the original on 2021-05-11.

[4] "New Permanent Representative of Myanmar Presents Credentials".

[5] "ပြည်ထောင်စုအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ရုံးဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှင့် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာ ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနတို့ကို တိုးချဲ့ဖွဲ့စည်းမည်" (in Burmese).

[6] "Tatmadaw names new govt officials". The Myanmar Times. 2021-02-01. Archived from the original on 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-02-01.

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v t e Foreign ministers of ASEAN
Bolkiah / Erywan Sok Marsudi Kommasith Mohamad Kyaw Tin¹ Manalo Balakrishnan Sangiampongsa Sơn
¹ Kyaw Tin is currently recognized as Myanmar's official Foreign Minister by ASEAN, instead of Ko Ko Hlaing (despite the latter currently serving as Myanmar's Minister of International Cooperation).