THE Ministry of Ethnic Affairs organized a coordination meeting yesterday to hold the third Myanmar Ethnic Culture Festival by promoting the ethnic culture and tourism industry.

During the meeting, Union Minister U Saw Tun Aung Myint highlighted the holding of the first and second festivals in 2019 and 2020 respectively and postponed the celebration. However, it was arranged to broadcast the third festival’s Virtual Reality via MRTV, NRC, Web portal and Facebook platform under the COVID-19 health rules.

The Union Minister then stressed the need to give proper suggestions regarding the appropriate time to hold the Myanmar Ethnic Culture Festival (2021).

He also discussed the planned festival programmes based on Kachin, Kayah, Kayin, Chin, Bamar, Mon, Rakhine, Shan and six self-administered division/zones.

He instructed to operate the shows of respective ethnic people, video clips, regional documentary and community-based tourism.

He also urged the ministries to coordinate the discussion and submit the meeting’s outcomes to the State Administration Council by negotiating with the Myanmar Ethnic Entrepreneurs Association.

He then emphasized the interest and socio-economic status development of ethnic people, peace in ethnic regions, tourism industry development, promotion of local production sectors and other recovery plans.

The participants coordinated the meeting, and Union Minister included the meeting.

MNA

(Translated by KTZH)

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