Myanmar focused world Attention

New Delhi's relations with Myanmar has focused world attention and its stepping in silence zone have already acquired strategic dimensions.New Delhi is on its way on economic involvement with Myanmar in coming weeks as its key joint project Kaladan to easy access of Sitwee port Myanmar is an infrastructure to ease a safe passage from India to Bay of Bengal through Mayanmar port.
India is likely to invest more than $103 million in the construction of the port, in the town of Sittwe in Myanmar's Rakhine State, while Myanmar has committed about $ 10 million in the joint venture project. Mizoram is about 160 km the port.
Kaladan project is the strategic edifice that India is busy building with Myanmar over the past few years as an important trans-border infrastructure project that will let the land-locked North-Eastern states gain easy access to the Bay of Bengal through Myanmar. It envisages a multi-modal transport corridor and building of a pipeline that will bring natural gas from Myanmar into the North-East. India's economic, security and geopolitical interest are paramount in Myanmar that it is prepared ignore the growing world's rage of its crackdown in Yangon.

Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy said that "The success of a dialogue is based on sincerity and the spirit of give and take," and "The will for achieving
success is also crucial, and there should not be any preconditions." This is probably the first comment since the Myanmar junta held up the prospect of talks, the party appeared to be trying to encourage negotiations without abandoning its platform. The party emphasized past statements by Suu Kyi, but also said it could make adjustments" for the sake of dialogue.

A state news media reported government had appointed Deputy Labor Minister Aung Kyi as the Cabinet's "minister for relations" to coordinate contacts with Suu Kyi. Aung Kyi is more open than top junta leaders, one deeply insular and fiercely hostile toward Suu Kyi.

On Tuesday,Romanian Ambassador Doru-Romulus Costea, who presides over the UNHRC council, said it wants Pinheiro to go to Myanmar as soon as possible to assess the human rights situation and appealed to junta Tuesday to allow a visit by the body's Myanmar specialist, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, who has been barred from the country since 2003.

A rebel group,The Kachin Independent Organization (KIO), isthe mood of changing the name of the organization and its character so as to participate in the Burmese junta's planned general election.

A meeting to this effect will be held among the top level leadership next week.

The high level meeting to be held on October 15 at Laiza, the KIO headquarters.

Asean Summit

The upcoming Asean summit, scheduled for November 19-21 in Singapore, could face problems in initiating concrete action.

It will not be easy for Asean to push for democracy in Burma while China, which holds veto power in the UN Security Council, is calling on council members to avoid using strong language in the text of common statement on Burma.

On September 27, Asean foreign ministers issued a strong statement on the crackdown in Burma. Thai prime minister called the crackdown in Burma unacceptable,
following a similar line to Asean's. "Amid international pressure,Thailand will monitor the situation and will discuss within Asean what kind of action should be taken," he said.

Thailand,, Singapore, Malaysia China- Burma's four largest foreign investors.
China could play a key role in developments in Burma, using its considerable International political and economic weight.