State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s Speech on the Occasion of the One Year Anniversary of the Government

(30 March 2017)

To All the People of the Union, A year ago on 30 March 2016, the NLD Government took over the responsibilities of the State with a clear mandate given by the people in the multi-party general elections held in November 2015. Accordingly, we have a bounden duty to be accountable to the people. The respective Ministries at the Union level and the States level have shared with you their work priorities, implementation of those priorities, the challenges that remain and future direction they will be pursuing in serving the interest of the people. On my part, I would like to highlight three important matters. The first concerning “the change” that the NLD had promised in the campaign leading up to the elections. We need to review and assess how far we made good on that promise. When we say “change”, we are referring to two; “ changing the system” and “changing mind-set”.

Ministry of Defence in military and civil services in the time of the new government Performances in One-Year Period

The Ministry of Defence is committed to ensuring the new government elected by the people to be on the right track of democracy. The activities it has undertaken include environmental conservation, relief and resettlement in times of natural disaster, reopening of universities’ training corps, rural health care services and prevention of recruitment of minors into the army. 

Natural environment 

Natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally and the interaction of all living species, climate, weather and natural resources that affect human survival and economic activity. The natural environment is greatly modified into a simplified human environment. Man has changed landscapes to make urban settings and agricultural land, thereby resulting in gradual degradation of the environment in the period of over 50 years. Natural disaster and manmade disaster caused climate changes, thus triggering global warming, flood, landslide, earthquake, storm, forest fire and volcanic eruption. Therefore, different countries are extensively engaged in disaster reduction, alleviation of global warming and reforestation. Provisional services and regulating services are adoption of climate changes, carbonization, water and air purification, prevention of land erosion and landslide.