Maung Ko is a former member of State Administration Council of Myanmar.[2] He has also been a former chief minister of Mandalay Region. He has served as chairman of Mandalay Region Administration Council, sub-council of State Administration Council, from 2 February 2021 to 1 August 2021. He is also a patron of the Mandalay Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MRCCI).[3]
Maung Ko မောင်ကို | |
|---|---|
| Member of State Administration Council | |
| In office 1 February 2023 – 2 August 2023 | |
| 3rd Chief Minister of Mandalay Region | |
| In office 1 August 2021 – 1 February 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Himself (chairman of RAC) |
| Succeeded by | Myo Aung |
| Chairman of Mandalay Region Administration Council | |
| In office 2 February 2021 – 1 August 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Zaw Myint Maung (chief minister) |
| Succeeded by | Himself (chief minister) |
| Personal details | |
| Awards | |
Political career
editHe was appointed the chairman of Mandalay Region Administration Council by SAC Chairman Min Aung Hlaing. On 1 August 2021, the State and Region Administration Councils were dissolved and the State and Region Governments were reformed. Maung Ko was appointed the head of Mandalay Region Government and became the 3rd Chief Minister of Mandalay Region.[4][5]
US sanctions
editOn 10 December 2021, the U.S. Department of the Treasury added Maung Ko to its Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list. Individuals on the list have their assets blocked and U.S. citizens are generally prohibited from doing business with them.[6]
References
edit- ^ "မြန်မာ့အလင်းသတင်းစာ (၁၈.၁၁.၂၀၂၂)".
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ်၊ ၅ / ၂၀၂၃ ၁၃၈၄ ခုနှစ်၊ တပို့တွဲလဆန်း ၁၂ ရက် (၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ်၊ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ ၁ ရက်) နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်း".
- ^ "U Maung Ko, Chairman, Myanmar Federation of Mining Association (CEC): Interview".
- ^ "တိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီဝင်များ ခန့်အပ်တာဝန်ပေးခြင်း".
- ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၅၈ / ၂၀၂၁ ၁၃၈၃ ခုနှစ်၊ ဝါဆိုလပြည့်ကျော် ၉ ရက် (၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဩဂုတ်လ ၁ ရက်) တိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်များ ခန့်အပ်တာဝန်ပေးခြင်း".
- ^ "Global Magnitsky Designations; North Korea Designations; Burma-related Designations; Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (NS-CMIC) List Update". U.S. Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 2021-12-10.