Wunna Maung Lwin

Wunna Maung Lwin
‹See Tfd›ဝဏ္ဏမောင်လွင်
Member of the State Administration Council
Assumed office
1 February 2023
SAC ChairmanMin Aung Hlaing
19th and 21st Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
1 February 2021 – 1 February 2023
PresidentMyint Swe (acting)
SAC chairman and prime ministerMin Aung Hlaing
Preceded byAung San Suu Kyi
Succeeded byThan Swe[1]
In office
30 March 2011 – 30 March 2016
PresidentThein Sein
Preceded byNyan Win
Succeeded byAung San Suu Kyi
Permanent Representative to the United Nations[2]
In office
2007 – 30 March 2011
LeaderThan Shwe
Succeeded byMaung Wai
Personal details
Born30 May 1952 (1952-05-30) (age 72)
Thaton, Mon State, Burma
NationalityBurmese
Political partyUSDP (2010–2016)
SpouseLin Lin Tin
ChildrenTin Thitsar Lwin
Lin Marlar Lwin
Lin Min Aung Lwin
ParentMaung Lwin (father)
Alma materDefence Services Academy
Methodist English High School
CabinetMin Aung Hlaing's military cabinet
Military service
Allegiance Myanmar
Branch/service Myanmar Army
Years of service1971–1998
Rank Colonel

Wunna Maung Lwin (Burmese: ဝဏ္ဏမောင်လွင်; born 30 May 1952,[3]) is a Burmese politician and a member of State Administration Council.[4] He was a Minister of Foreign Affairs under Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Min Aung Hlaing after the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.[5][6] He previously served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from March 2011 to March 2016. He is a retired colonel in the Myanmar Army.

  1. ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ်၊ ၆ / ၂၀၂၃ ၁၃၈၄ ခုနှစ်၊ တပို့တွဲလဆန်း ၁၂ ရက် (၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်) ပြည်ထောင်စုအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်း" (in Burmese). Archived from the original on 2023-02-01. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  2. ^ "Burma Issues and Concerns: Locked In, Tied Up: Burma's Disciplined Democracy". 7. Alternative Asean Network on Burma. April 2011: 14. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ "Cabinet Ministers". Alternative Asean Network on Burma. Archived from the original on 18 October 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  4. ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ်၊ ၅ / ၂၀၂၃ ၁၃၈၄ ခုနှစ်၊ တပို့တွဲလဆန်း ၁၂ ရက် (၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်) နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်း". Archived from the original on 2023-02-01. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  5. ^ Nitta, Yuichi; Takahashi, Toru (2 February 2021). "Myanmar military appoints ministers after ousting Suu Kyi in coup". Nikkei Asia. Yangon and Bangkok. Archived from the original on 13 May 2022. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Myanmar coup: who are the military figures running the country?". The Guardian. 2 February 2021. Archived from the original on 17 February 2021. Retrieved 23 February 2021.