It is also a very important source of foreign direct investment. Singapore is the largest investor in Myanmar followed closely by Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. While we place special significance on regionalism, Myanmar, as a founder member of GATT and WTO, highly values a free international trading system. We firmly believe that an international trading system that is free and fair and which provides remunerative prices for the products from developing countries is necessary to bring about economic development to billions of people living in these countries. At the national level we are implementing a policy conducive to this vision.
Poverty alleviation is therefore a priority concern of the government.
We believe that all Human Rights, political, economic, and social rights should be given due attention. That is why we have signed and ratified a number of important Human Rights Instruments including the Four Geneva Conventions, Convention on the Right of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. However, as a developing country, we place special emphasis on a very basic Human Right, that is the right to development. We also hold in very high esteem, as did all the participating countries at the World Human Rights Conference in Vienna, the significance of national and regional particularities in the implementation of Human Rights. This year marks the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.