Chief of Armed Forces Training Lt-Gen Kyaw Win attends ceremony to present prizes to booths to mark 59th Anniversary Armed Forces Day

YANGON, 26 March-A ceremony to present prizes to exhibition booths to mark the 59th Anniversary Armed Forces Day was held at Defence Services Museum on Shwedagon Pagoda Road, where the 59th Anniversary Armed Forces Day exhibition is being held, at 3 pm today with an address by Chairman of Leading Committee for Observance of the 59th Anniversary Armed Forces Day member of the State Peace and Development Council Chief of Armed Forces Training Lt-Gen Kyaw Win.

Also present on the occasion were Chief of Staff (Navy) Capt Nyan Tun, Judge Advocate-General Maj-Gen Soe Maung, Vice Adjutant-General Brig-Gen Hla Shwe, senior military officers, the deputy director-general of Myanmar Police Force, heads of department, guests and others. First, master of ceremonies Staff Officer (Grade II) of Directorate of Defence Services Museum and Historical Research Institute Major Kyaw Kyaw Myint read the list of prize-winning exhibition booths.

Chairman of Leading Committee for Observance of the 59th Anniversary Armed Forces Day member of the State Peace and Development Council Chief of Armed Forces Training Lt-Gen Kyaw Win presented prizes to booth of the Ministry of Industry-1 that stood first, booth of the Ministry of Construction that stood second, booth of the Ministry of Rail Transportation that stood third, booth of the Ministry of Commerce that stood fourth, booth of the Ministry of Communications, Posts and Telegraphs that stood fifth, booths of the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Mines, the Ministry for Progress of Border Areas and National Races and Development Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, the Ministry of Forestry, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Energy that won consolation prizes.

Next, Chairman of Panel of Judges for the Exhibition Booths Judge Advocate-General Maj-Gen Soe Maung presented prizes to booth of Northern Command that stood first, booth of North-West Command that stood second and booth of Coastal Region Command that stood third; Vice Adjutant-General Brig-Gen Hla Shwe, booths of Western Command, North-East Command and South-West Command that won consolation prizes; Chief of Staff (Navy) Capt Nyan Tun, booth of Directorate of Ordnance Services that stood first, booth of Directorate of Signals that stood second and booth of Directorate of Artillery Force that stood third; Deputy Quartermaster-General Col Myint Ohn, booths of Directorate of Armoured Force, Directorate of Supply and Transport and Directorate of Military Engineers that won consolation prizes.

The ceremony ended with the concluding remarks by Chairman of Leading Committee for Observance of the 59th Anniversary Armed Forces Day member of the State Peace and Development Council Chief of Armed Forces Training Lt-Gen Kyaw Win.