{"id":138,"date":"2013-04-27T23:54:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T23:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2013-04-27T23:54:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T23:54:39","slug":"an-11-member-burma-parliamentary-delegation-visited-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"11-member Burma parliamentary delegation meets with CFOB which I Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information Release by Canadian Friends of Burma \u2013 April 26, 2013 <span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>(for the full release please view guest blog on this site)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ottawa &#8211; An 11-member Burma parliamentary delegation visited Ottawa this week in exchange of the Canadian parliamentary delegation sent off to Burma earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>A day before their departure, the delegation met the executive members of CFOB Board of Directors at the Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa on April 26, 2013,<\/p>\n<p>Executive board members of CFOB who met the delegation are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Merle Jacobs (Chairperson)<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Timothy Zaw Zaw\u00a0 (Vice-Chairperson)<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ms. Thet Thet\u00a0 Htun (Secretary)<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mr. Tin Maung Htoo<\/p>\n<p>In terms of my visit, I found all members to be interested in education for the peoples of Burma. The females MPs and I had a chance of speaking 1:1. Their concerns included economic development which would help the population. Having not spoken Burmese for decades, I was able to understand most of the discussion but could only speak a few sentences. This meeting was productive and informative. I provided a copy of my book Women&#8217;s Work to each member; sending one to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi\">Daw Aung\u00a0 Suu Kyi.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Release by Canadian Friends of Burma \u2013 April 26, 2013 (for the full release please view guest blog on this site) Ottawa &#8211; An 11-member Burma parliamentary delegation visited Ottawa this week in exchange of the Canadian parliamentary delegation sent off to Burma earlier this year. A day before their departure, the delegation met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merleajacobs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}