ARRIVAL OF GENERAL; WELCOME AT PALAM AIRPORT AND MOTORCADE TO PRESIDENT'S RESIDENCE; PRESIDENT, GENERAL AND INDIAN OFFICIALS SEATED INSIDE RESIDENCE.




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Background: GENERAL NE WIN, BURMESE HEAD OF STATE AND CHAIRMAN OF THE NATION'S REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL, ARRIVED IN NEW DELHI ON THURSDAY AT THE START OF A WEEK-LONG INFORMAL VISIT. SHORTLY AFTER HIS ARRIVAL, GENERAL NE WIN HELD TALKS WITH THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT, WHICH A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID REVEALED SIMILAR ATTITUDES BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES ON WORLD AND BI-LATERAL ISSUES.

AT THE INDIAN CAPITAL'S PALAM AIRPORT, THE BURMESE LEADER AND HIS WIFE WERE GREETED BY INDIAN PRESIDENT V.V. GIRI AND PRIME MINISTER MRS. INDIRA GANDHI.

FROM THE AIRPORT, THE MOTORCADE WENT TO THE PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE AND LATER HE HAD A TWO-HOUR MEETING WITH MRS. GANDHI AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER DINESH SINGH.

AMONG ITEMS DISCUSSED BY THE GENERAL WAS THE SITUATION OF INDIANS LIVING IN BURMA FOLLOWING THE RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED ON THEM BY THE BURMESE GOVERNMENT SEVERAL YEARS AGO.