Ministry of Union Government Office (Myanmar)
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Formed | 24 November 2017 |
Jurisdiction | Government of Myanmar |
Headquarters | Office No (18), Naypyidaw |
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Website | official website |
The Ministry of Union Government Office (Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စုအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ရုံး ဝန်ကြီးဌာန, 'MOUGO') is a ministry-level body that serves the Union Government of Myanmar.Currently there are two ministries, MOUGO (1) and MOUGO (2).MOUGO (1) is led by Lieutenant General Yar Pyae, a military officer, and MOUGO (2) is led by Chit Naing, former minister of Information.
Departments[]
- Union Government Office
History[]
Htun Htun Oo, Union Attorney General, posted a bill from the president to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw for the formation of two new ministries on 20 November 2017.
As regards the duties and responsibilities of the Union Government, the Secretary of the Union Government, Director-General of the Office of the Union Government is carrying out, submitting it to the President.
The Union Government is performing numerous of tasks including matters on the administration of the Union, matters on Planning and Finance, matters on submission of the bills and others. In doing so, the tasks are assumed to be more effectively implemented provided that the Union Minister to be newly appointed will take the responsibility for the President, hence the need for the new Ministry to be formed.[1][2]
On 1 August 2021, the SAC reconstituted the Ministry of the Union Government Office as the Ministry of Union Government Office (1) and the Ministry of Union Government Office (2).[3]
Formation[]
In forming the Ministry of the Office of the Union Government, the office routine work will be carried out with the labor forces of the set-up of the Office of the Union Government. On 28 December 2018, General Administration Department (GAD) was reorganized and reinvoked under the Ministry of the Office of the Union Government after being detached from the Ministry of Home Affairs.On 5 May 2021, the SAC reorganized the GAD under Ministry of Home Affairs.[4]
List of Union Ministers[]
No. | Portrait | Name | Term of Office | Political Party | President | Deputy Minister | ||
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Took Office | Left Office | Days | ||||||
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Thaung Tun | 23 November 2017[5] | 19 November 2018[6] | 361 |
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He was the National Security Advisor of Htin Kyaw's Cabinet.[7] | ||||||||
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Min Thu | 29 November 2018[8] | 1 February 2021 | 795 | Union Solidarity and Development Party | Win Myint | Tin Myint |
He was the deputy minister of the president office. | ||||||||
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Lieutenant General Soe Htut | 1 February 2021 | 11 May 2021 | 99 | Myanmar Military | Myint Swe (acting) | Major General Soe Tint Naing |
He is also incumbent minister for Ministry of Home Affairs (Myanmar) | ||||||||
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Lieutenant General Yar Pyae | 11 May 2021 | Incumbent | 234 | Myanmar Military | Myint Swe (acting) | |
deputy[]
- Tin Myint (2 January 2019 - 1 February 2021)
- Major General Soe Tint Naing (2 February 2021 - 11 May 2021)
References[]
- ^ "Pyidaungsu Hluttaw agreed two new ministries".
- ^ http://www.president-office.gov.mm/?q=briefing-room/news/2017/11/24/id-12837
- ^ "Order No 149/2021, State Administration Council, Republic of the Union of Myanmar" (PDF). The Global New Light of Myanmar. MNA. 2 August 2021. p. 6. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "အထွေထွေအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးဦးစီးဌာနအား ပြည်ထောင်စုအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ရုံးဝန်ကြီးဌာန လက်အောက်မှ ပြည်ထဲရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန လက်အောက်သို့ ပြောင်းရွှေ့".
- ^ "Appointment of Union Ministers". နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတရုံး. 6 April 2011.
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတရုံး အမိန့်အမှတ်၊ ၄၀ /၂၀၁၈ ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး ပြောင်းလဲတာဝန်ပေးခြင်း".
- ^ "Appointment of National Security Advisor to the Union Government (Order No 1/2017)".
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတရုံး အမိန့်အမှတ်၊ ၄၂ /၂၀၁၈". နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတရုံး. 27 February 2011.
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