China/Myanmar: Myanmar-China Border Dispute a Matter for Foreign Ministry Say Shan State Government

Nov 18, 2014 | Kyel Pyar, Mizzima
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The Shan State government says the Myanmar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs should handle a border dispute concerning three villages now occupied by Chinese citizens but said to be located on Myanmar sovereign soil.

U Myint Aung, secretary of the state government, told Mizzima on November 17 that the Shan State government has no plan to tackle the northern Shan State border dispute in Namkham Township, but the foreign ministry will seek to solve the dispute through diplomatic means.

Records of Myanmar’s Department of Settlement and Land show the villages of Kyekhun, Mangnawng and Konsa to have been illegally occupied by Chinese residents and are currently being treated as territory of China.