It is very important for national people to forge Union Spirit wherever they live Prime Minister General Thein Sein facilitates Rakhine State developm

NAY PYI TAW, 27 Jan –Prime Minister GeneralThein Sein, accompaniedby Lt-Gen Khin Zaw of the Ministry of Defence, the ministers, the deputy ministers, the director-general of the Government Office and departmental heads, left Yangon on 24It is very important for national people to forge Union Spirit wherever they live Prime Minister General Thein Sein facilitates Rakhine State development Prime Minister General Thein Sein meeting with departmental
officials, townselders and local people in Sittway.—MNA January. They arrived in Sittway at 10:15 a.m. Prime Minister General Thein Sein and party were welcomed at the airport by Chairman of Rakhine State Peace and Development Council Commander of Western Command Maj-Gen Thaung Aye, Col Soe Lwin of Sittway Station, local authorities and officials.
The Prime Minister met officials of state, district and township level officials, townselders and
ward administrative bodies at the hall of Sittway Station and discussed regional development and natural disaster preparedness. Present were Lt-Gen Khin Zaw of the Ministry of Defence, Commander Maj-Gen Thaung Aye, the ministers, the deputy ministers, the director-general
of the Government Office and departmental heads. The commander reported on the area of
Rakhine State, use of land resources, conditions of marine resources, output of monsoon paddy, cultivation of summer paddy, sufficiency of rice and edible oil, cultivation of cold
season crops and new item pepper, efforts for target output of ten major crops, cultivation of oil palm, rubber and physic nut, river water pumping projects, breeding of prawn, measures taken for development of education, health and transport and arrangements for disaster preparedness. In his speech the Prime Minister said Rakhine State with a population of over three million has anarea of over 14,000 square miles and it consists of four districts and 17 townships. According to geographical conditions, mountains, rivers and creeks and the sea are natural barriers to Rakhine State and therefore there were difficulties to go to other regions of the country and to deal with national people. During the colonial period, the imperialists practised the divide andrule policy. As a result, there were some doubts among national people
causing racism such as Rakhine race or Bamar race, he said. In fact, Rakhine State is a part of the Union ofMyanmar and it is a small union where various national races such as Rakhine, Bamar, Pyu, Kanyan, Thet, etc. have been living in unity since time immemorial. Rakhine national is also a Myanmar national living in Myanmar and thus it cannot discriminate
Rakhine from Myanmar. It is very important for them to forge the Union Spirit wherever
they live. All the national people with the same mind live in the same country and they must be in oneness, he said.