Myanmar agrees with Russia to develop nuclear energy. We bet that …
The military junta of Myanmar and the Russian state atomic energy agency Rusatom have signed a cooperation agreement on peaceful nuclear energy, official media reported Wednesday.
The agreement was signed during a visit to Russia by the head of the junta Min Aung Hlaing, which began on Sunday and was never made known.
The coup leader was on his second international trip since he overthrew an elected government in a military coup on February 1, 2021, and proclaimed himself prime minister of the Southeast Asian country. On Monday Min Aung Hlaing met Alexey Likhachev, general director of the state body Rosatom, in Moscow, "to talk about cooperation in sectors that are advantageous for the peoples of both countries in the field of technological cooperation on atomic energy", reported the Global New Light of Myanmar, controlled by the military.
Min Aung Hlaing also met with Dmitry Rogozin, general manager of the Roscosmos state space company, to discuss advances in science and technology development, as well as human resource development. He also met with Alexander Mikheev, CEO of Rosoboronexport, the main Russian state organization for the export of arms.
The two nations have deepened diplomatic and trade ties, despite the United States and its Western allies isolating them with increasing sanctions in response to Myanmar's military coup and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Myanmar coup put an end to a decade of nascent democracy led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.
According to a report by the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners, the military regime has killed over 2,000 citizens and imprisoned more than 14,500 pro-democracy activists since the 2021 coup.
The use of lethal force and violent repression to silence the voices of democracy has made the country once again a pariah state, but that does not prevent it from having excellent relations with Russia, as many countries in the Middle East have. However, the plans for the construction of a nuclear power plant in Myanmar appear certain, and we bet that that country, theoretically much more backward than us, will achieve energy autonomy long before Italy.
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