ကမာၻ႕ဘဏ္၊ အာရွေဒသဆုိင္ရာ ဒါရိုက္တာ ဟု Eleven မွ ေဖာ္ျပခဲ႔ေသာ Mr. JELSON GARCIA မွ Eleven အယ္ဒီတာခ်ဳပ္ ေ၀ျဖိဳးသို႔ေပးေသာ အိတ္ဖြင္႔စာ

Date: 09/13/2013 12:03 AM 

Subject: Clarifying email on your article 

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Dear Wai Phyo,

It has come to my attention that your article appearing on Daily Eleven dated September 11, 2013 quoted me as saying:
* to the effect that Myanmar has $US 11 billion located in 5 accounts; and * that I work for the World Bank as Asia Manager.
Let me set the record straight.

First, I did not say in categorical terms that the government does have it in such number of accounts. As this part was discussed in the context of the larger session on processes of IFI re-engagement in Myanmar, I touched upon the accounts in connection with the arrears clearance options that were being considered in 2012. It was based on the information I and my colleagues received from our meetings with the World Bank and ADB in March and April 2012. Based on combined notes from me and colleagues who attended those meetings , they highlighted that Myanmar has reserves in some accounts but there were different estimated figures and they did not specify which banks the accounts were located.

Second, I do not work for the World Bank. As I and Khin Ohmar, our translator for the session clarified at the outset, I work for the Bank Information Center, an independent nonprofit organization. We have independently engaged with the World Bank since the late 1980s. As such, neither do we speak for nor represent the World Bank or any other multilateral development institutions.

Khin Ohmar simply translated what I said. The article does not accurately reflect mine and the translation. It would have been prudent on your side if you had verified with me or Khin Ohmar before publishing the article as it has been creating reactions from various quarters and is likely being blown out of proportion, which certainly is not in my control.

The World Bank issued a press release today (http://issuu.com/.../1...) clarifying on its behalf about my organization and the government accounts. If you need further information, it is best to contact their Yangon office (myanmar@worldbank.org<mailto:myanmar@worldbank.org>) or visit their website : http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/myanmar. I also copied the WB Myanmar Country Manager here.
I hope it helps you in setting the record straight.
Sincerely,
JELSON GARCIA Asia Program Manager Bank Information Center jgarcia@bicusa.org<mailto:jgarcia@bicusa.org>; Skype:jelson975 Ph: 202 6240622; Mob: 202 8022995 www.bicusa.org<http://www.bicusa.org/>s

( Credit to Oo Kyaw )
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွ      ျပည္ပတြင္ ဘဏ္စာရင္းငါးခုျဖင့္ အပ္ထားသည့္ ေငြမွာ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၁၁ ဘီလီယံအထိ ရွိ၍ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ မည္သည့္အေကာင့္မ်ားဆိုသည္ကို ကမာၻ႔ဘဏ္က သိေၾကာင္း၊ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအား ေၾကြးၿမီႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ေျဖရွင္းရန္ နည္းလမ္းသံုးခုေပးခဲ့ ေၾကာင္း၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေနျဖင့္ အဆိုပါဘဏ္စာရင္းငါးခုကို လံုး၀မထိသည့္နည္းလမ္းကို ေရြးခ်ယ္ခဲ့ ေၾကာင္း ကမာၻ႕ဘဏ္၊ အာရွေဒသဆုိင္ရာ ဒါရိုက္တာ Mr. Jelson Garcia က ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္ဟု Eleven Media မွ စာနယ္ဇင္းက်င္႔၀တ္အား ေဖာက္ဖ်က္၍ မေလ်ာ္ကန္စြာေဖာ္ျပခဲ့ပါသည္။

အဆိုပါသတင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ကမာၻ႔ဘဏ္က စက္တင္ဘာ ၁၂ ရက္တြင္ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ရာ Mr. Jelson Garcia သည္ NGO အဖြဲ႔အစည္းျဖစ္သည့္  Bank Information Center(BIC) တြင္ တာ၀န္ ထမ္းေဆာင္ေနသူ တစ္ဦးသာလွ်င္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ကမာၻ႔ဘဏ္(The World Bank) အဖြဲ႕အစည္းႏွင့္ မည္သို႔မွ သက္ဆုိင္ျခင္းမရွိသည့္အျပင္ ကမာၻ႕ဘဏ္အဖြဲ႕အစည္း၏ ကိုယ္စားျပဳ ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူတစ္ဦး မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း၊  ကမာၻ႕ဘဏ္၏ ေၾကြးက်န္မ်ားကို ရွင္းလင္းရန္နွင့္ ႏွစ္ရွည္အတိုးမဲ့ေခ်းေငြမ်ားကို ျပန္လည္ရယူႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု သမၼတျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေတာ္အစိုးရသည္ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာေျမာက္ သည့္ ဆံုးခ်တ္ခ်က္တစ္ခုကို ခ်မွတ္ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ထိုႏွစ္ရွည္အတိုးမဲ့ေခ်းေငြမ်ားကို            ျမန္မာ ျပည္သူမ်ား အကိ်ဳးခံစားခြင့္ရရွိနုိင္မည့္ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ ရြက္ရာတြင္ အသံုးျပဳသြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ထိုဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္သည္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ စီးပြား ေရးဆိုင္ရာ ဖိအားမ်ားျဖစ္ေပၚလာႏုိင္သည့္ကာလတြင္ ဂရုျပဳေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္း၏ ယံုၾကည္မႈရရွိေစမည့္ အေပါင္းလကၡဏာတစ္ရပ္ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ကုန္သြယ္ေရးႏွင့္ ၀န္ေဆာင္မႈဆုိင္ရာ လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ေခ်ာေမြ႔လြယ္ကူေစရန္ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေငြလဲလွယ္ႏႈန္းမ်ားကို တည္ၿငိမ္ ေအာင္ စီမံေဆာင္ရြက္ႏုိင္ရန္အတြက္ ႏုိင္ငံရပ္ျခားဘဏ္စာရင္းမ်ား ထားရွိျခင္းသည္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အစိုးရ မ်ား၏ ပံုမွန္လုပ္ငန္းတစ္ရပ္ဟု ကမာၻ႕ဘဏ္က ယူဆေၾကာင္း ပါရွိပါသည္။

 

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