Wunna Maung Lwin
{{Short description|Minister of Foreign Affairs of Myanmar}}
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| image = Secretary Kerry Poses for a Photo With Burmese Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin Before Their Meeting in New York City (21700838510) (cropped).jpg
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| office = Member of the State Administration Council
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| term_start = 1 February 2023
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| 1namedata = Min Aung Hlaing
| office1 = 19th and 21st Minister of Foreign Affairs
| term_start1 = 1 February 2021
| term_end1 = 1 February 2023
| predecessor1 = Aung San Suu Kyi
| successor1 = Than Swe{{cite news|url=https://www.cincds.gov.mm/node/20927|title=ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ်၊ ၆ / ၂၀၂၃ ၁၃၈၄ ခုနှစ်၊ တပို့တွဲလဆန်း ၁၂ ရက် (၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်) ပြည်ထောင်စုအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်း|language=my|access-date=2023-02-01|archive-date=2023-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201162401/https://www.cincds.gov.mm/node/20927|url-status=live}}
| president1 = Myint Swe (acting)
| 1blankname1 = SAC chairman and prime minister
| 1namedata1 = Min Aung Hlaing
| term_start2 = 30 March 2011
| term_end2 = 30 March 2016
| predecessor2 = Nyan Win
| successor2 = Aung San Suu Kyi
| president2 = Thein Sein
| office3 = Permanent Representative to the United Nations{{cite journal|date=April 2011|title=Burma Issues and Concerns: Locked In, Tied Up: Burma's Disciplined Democracy |publisher=Alternative Asean Network on Burma|volume=7|pages=14}}
| leader3 = Than Shwe
| term_start3 = 2007
| term_end3 = 30 March 2011
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| successor3 = Maung Wai
| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|30 May 1952}}
| birth_place = Thaton, Mon State, Burma
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| nationality = Burmese
| party = USDP (2010–2016)
| cabinet = Min Aung Hlaing's military cabinet
| spouse = Lin Lin Tin
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| children = Tin Thitsar Lwin
Lin Marlar Lwin
Lin Min Aung Lwin
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| alma_mater = Defence Services Academy
Methodist English High School
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Wunna Maung Lwin ({{langx|my|ဝဏ္ဏမောင်လွင်}}; born 30 May 1952,{{cite news|url=http://www.altsean.org/Research/Regime%20Watch/Executive/Ministers.php|title=Cabinet Ministers|work=Alternative Asean Network on Burma|accessdate=12 February 2014|archive-date=18 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131018222141/http://www.altsean.org/Research/Regime%20Watch/Executive/Ministers.php|url-status=dead}}) is a Burmese politician and a member of State Administration Council.{{cite news|url=https://www.cincds.gov.mm/node/20926|title=ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ်၊ ၅ / ၂၀၂၃ ၁၃၈၄ ခုနှစ်၊ တပို့တွဲလဆန်း ၁၂ ရက် (၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်) နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်း|access-date=2023-02-01|archive-date=2023-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201161722/https://www.cincds.gov.mm/node/20926|url-status=live}} He was a Minister of Foreign Affairs under Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Min Aung Hlaing after the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.{{cite news |last1=Nitta |first1=Yuichi |last2=Takahashi |first2=Toru |title=Myanmar military appoints ministers after ousting Suu Kyi in coup |url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Myanmar-Crisis/Myanmar-military-appoints-ministers-after-ousting-Suu-Kyi-in-coup |access-date=13 May 2022 |work=Nikkei Asia |date=2 February 2021 |location=Yangon and Bangkok |archive-date=13 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220513060100/https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Myanmar-Crisis/Myanmar-military-appoints-ministers-after-ousting-Suu-Kyi-in-coup |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Myanmar coup: who are the military figures running the country? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/02/myanmar-coup-who-are-the-military-figures-running-the-country |website=The Guardian |access-date=23 February 2021 |date=2 February 2021 |archive-date=17 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217120811/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/02/myanmar-coup-who-are-the-military-figures-running-the-country |url-status=live }} He previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from March 2011 to March 2016. He is a retired colonel in the Myanmar Army.
Early life and education
Wunna Maung Lwin was born in Thaton, Mon State on 30 May 1954.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} He graduated from the 16th intake of the Defence Services Academy in 1971.
Career
He joined the Myanmar Diplomatic service in 2000, after a long career in the Myanmar Armed Forces from 1971 to 1998. Before he holds the current position, he served as Director-General of the Ministry of Border Affairs (Myanmar) from July 1998 to September 2000, Myanmar Ambassador to Israel from 2000 to 2001, France from 2001 to 2004, Belgium and EU from 2004 to 2007 and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland from 2007 to 2011.
= Foreign minister =
He served as the 19th Foreign Minister of Myanmar from 2011 to 2016. Thein Sein appointed him in his cabinet. Later he became the CEC member of USDP. In the 2020 general election, he lost to his opponent from NLD, Kyaw Htwe.{{cite news|url=https://uecdata.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/2020%20Election%20Result%20%28%20Percentage%20%29/1.%20Pyithu%20Result%20%28%20Percentage%20%29/Pyithu%20Each%20Candidate%20Result.pdf|title=ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်လောင်း တစ်ဦးချင်းစီ၏ ဆန္ဒမဲရရှိမှုအခြေအနေ|last=|date=|work=Union Election Commission|language=Burmese|accessdate=|archive-date=2022-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618232758/https://uecdata.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/2020%20Election%20Result%20%28%20Percentage%20%29/1.%20Pyithu%20Result%20%28%20Percentage%20%29/Pyithu%20Each%20Candidate%20Result.pdf|url-status=dead}}
But after 2021 coup, Min Aung Hlaing appointed him as Foreign Minister. On 24 February, Wunna Maung Lwin met with Thailand Foreign Minister, Don Pramudwinai and Indonesia Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi in Thailand. He also met with Thailand Prime Minister, Prayut Chan-o-cha. This was the first foreign trip of the military cabinet member.{{cite news|url=https://burmese.voanews.com/a/Thai-Indonesia-Myanmar-foreign-ministers-meet-Bangkok-after-military-coup/5792041.html|title=အင်ဒိုနိုင်ငံခြားရေး၀န်ကြီး နဲ့ ဦး၀ဏ္ဏမောင်လွင် ဘန်ကောက်မှာတွေ့|last=|date=|work=|language=Burmese|accessdate=|archive-date=2021-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226233047/https://burmese.voanews.com/a/Thai-Indonesia-Myanmar-foreign-ministers-meet-Bangkok-after-military-coup/5792041.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://burmese.voanews.com/a/myanmar-military-coup-wannamaunglwin-meet-with-thai-pm/5790778.html?nocache=1|title=ထိုင်းဝန်ကြီးချုပ် မြန်မာစစ်ကောင်စီ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးကို လက်ခံတွေ့ဆုံ|last=|date=|work=|language=Burmese|accessdate=|archive-date=2021-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227144350/https://burmese.voanews.com/a/myanmar-military-coup-wannamaunglwin-meet-with-thai-pm/5790778.html?nocache=1|url-status=live}}
Personal life
Wunna Maung Lwin is married to Lin Lin Tin, the youngest daughter of Thakhin Ba Tin, a member of the Dobama Asiayone and a cousin of Kyu Kyu Hla.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-02-13 |title=Analysis {{!}} Junta Reshuffle Shows Nepotism Rules in Myanmar |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/analysis/junta-reshuffle-shows-nepotism-rules-in-myanmar.html |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=The Irrawaddy |language=en-US |archive-date=2023-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219094800/https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/analysis/junta-reshuffle-shows-nepotism-rules-in-myanmar.html |url-status=live }} He has three children, Tin Thitsa Lwin, Lin Marlar Lwin, and Lin Min Maung Lwin.
Personal Sanctions
On December 11, 2023, the European Union imposed personal restrictions on Wunna Maung Lwin due to his role as a newly appointed member of the State Administration Council and former junta-appointed Foreign Minister. In these positions, he has tried to legitimize the junta's rule and contributed to ongoing repressions and the commission of serious human rights violations by the junta since the February 2021 coup.{{Cite web |title=COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2023/2789 of 11 December 2023 implementing Regulation (EU) No 401/2013 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Myanmar/Burma |url=https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202302789 |website=EUR-Lex}}
References
- {{cite news|url=http://www.irrawaddy.cc/article.php?art_id=21687|title=Wunna Maung Lwin: Military Commander to Foreign Minister|author=Wai Moe|date=13 July 2011|work=The Irrawaddy|accessdate=21 August 2011}}
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