Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and wife plant trees near the Yezin dam in Zeyathiri. Photo: MNA
COMMANDER-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and his wife planted a tree at the 1st monsoon tree-planting ceremony 2017 organised by the families of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army, Navy, Air) in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.
The ceremony took place near the Yezin dam in Zeyathiri Township, with Senior General Min Aung Hlaing planting a star flower tree and his wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla planting a Gangaw (ironwood) tree. Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commader-in-Chief (Army) Vice Senior General Soe Win, Union ministers, senior military officers and their wives also planted trees at designated places.
Altogether, 7,200 teak trees were planted by the families of the Defence Services Commander-in-Chief’s Office at the 1st monsoon tree-planting ceremony 2017.
Defence Services Commander-in-Chief’s Office took place at respective military commands with the families of the commands planting 93,750 trees of various kinds during monsoon season from 2011 to 2016.—Myanmar News Agency