Myanmar has planned to set up more border liaison offices with another immediate neighbor of Thailand to curb human trafficking following the establishment of the first such office at Muse trade point opposite to China's Ruili, local press media reported Friday.
Such more anti-human-trafficking border liaison offices will be introduced at three border points with the Southeastern neighbor, namely Tachilek, Myawaddy and Kawthoung respectively linking Thailand's Maesai, Maesot and Ranong, a Home Ministry source was quoted as saying.
Coordination is being made with Thailand for the move involving the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) and UN Inter Agency Project (UNIAP) on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Subregion.
The opening of such border liaison offices is aimed at promoting cooperation in cracking down on human trafficking at the basic level, the source said.
Myanmar is drafting a national-level five-year plan of eliminating human trade to step up combating the crime. The plan covers five sectors -- cooperation through the policy, prevention, taking action, protection of the victims and capacity building, according to the Central Committee for Prevention of Trafficking in Persons.
The authorities disclosed that Myanmar police force exposed 191 human trade cases, arresting 400 traffickers and rescuing 1,370 victims in 2006.
Myanmar joined in March 2004 the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women.
The country also signed a memorandum of understanding of six- member Greater Mekong Subregion against trafficking in persons in October 2004.
Myanmar passed domestically the Law on Prevention of Trafficking in Persons in September 2005.
Source: Xinhua
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