24 November 2025
At the invitation of the China-ASEAN Legal Research Center in Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, a Myanmar delegation led by Dr. Htain Lin Oo, Deputy Ministers for Ministry of Legal Affairs and Deputy Attorney General attended the 7th China-ASEAN Legal Cooperation Forum, held on 21 November.
This forum took place at 10:00 A.M. on 21 November in Changjiang Hall of the Chongqing Yuzhou Hotel. Attendees included Mr. Chen Wenqing, Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China as well as Secretary of the China Law Society; Mr. Yuan Jiajun, Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Secretary Chongqing Municipal Committee; Deputy Prime Ministers, Chief Justices, Ministers and Deputy Ministers from the legal and judicial ministries of ASEAN member states; officials from the ASEAN Secretariat; the Rector, professors and students of the Southwest University of Political Science and Law; Professor Zhang Xiao Jun, Secretary General of the China-ASEAN Legal Research Center, along with center members as well as legal scholars from China.
At the forum, Deputy Minister and Deputy Attorney Dr. Htain Lin Oo stated that a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the Ministry of Legal Affairs and the China-ASEAN Legal Research Center and as part of the key legal cooperation activities, law officers from the Ministry of Legal Affairs were sent to Southwest University of Political Science and Law for further studies and they obtained doctoral degrees. He addressed that the Ministry of Legal Affairs and the China-ASEAN Legal Research Center had been continuing their cooperation through ongoing legal research activities. He added that both countries had been working together effectively to uphold the rule of law, achieving notable results in combating transnational crimes and the Ministry of Legal Affairs was engaging in legal cooperation with ASEAN member states. The biliteral meetings and discussions between the Ministry of Legal Affairs and the China-ASEAN Legal Research Center had helped to foster long-term friendship and mutual understanding and in line with the Memorandum of Understanding, both parties would continue to collaborate on legal analysis, review, implementation, sending scholars and delivery of legal training programs. In the evening, the Myanmar delegation led by Deputy Minister and Deputy Attorney General Dr. Htain Lin Oo met with a team led by Yin Baohu, Deputy Secretary-General of the China-Law Society, and exchanged views on legal cooperation between the Ministry of Legal Affairs and the China-ASEAN Legal Research Center.
(MOLA’s NEWS)