The Myanmar delegation, led by Police Lt-Gen Win Zaw Moe, Chief of the Myanmar Police Force, attended the 93rd INTERPOL General Assembly held in Morocco from 24 to 27 November.

The opening ceremony of the assembly took place on 24 November, and Morocco’s Director-General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance, Mr Abdellatif Hammouchi and INTERPOL President Maj-Gen Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi made opening remarks, and the chiefs and deputy chiefs of INTERPOL member countries, observation organizations from 181 countries, heads of National Central Bureau (NCB) and superior officials, totalling about 800, attended the event.

The assembly approved the General Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the ICPO-INTERPOL, and discussed regarding signing, ratification and accession by all member countries, signing of United Nations Convention against Cybercrime by all member countries as the convention was approved on 24 December 2024 and close cooperation among representatives of member countries with the National Central Bureau to promote the role of INTERPOL in UN.

Moreover, the assembly approved INTERPOL’s Strategic Framework 2026-2030, which sets out four goals- to become a trusted global hub of information for the rule of law, to provide world-class investigative and operational support, to play a leading role in global rule-of-law processes, and to ensure that INTERPOL’s governance, financial stability, staff capabilities, and ethical standards remain at the highest level.

It also made decision to allow participation of all member countries in each Regional Conferences, to provide a forum to discuss the INTERPOL’s authorities at the regional conferences, to review and made suggestion for data management framework and data management supervisory mechanism by the Committee on the Processing of Data through INTERPOL’s information system, and also approved the financial report and statement for 2024, new statutory contributions scale for the period 2026-2028, work plans of INTERPOL for 2026 and budget draft and budget estimation for 2027-2028.

The representatives from member countries who had applied for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chairs, and members of the INTERPOL Executive Committee, whose terms expire at the end of December, were elected through a secret voting system.

The Myanmar delegation arrived back yesterday evening.

MNA/KTZH

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