The ceremony to hoist the State Flag on the 75th Anniversary (Diamond Jubilee) Independence Day was held on the Grand Military Review Square in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.
The flag-hoisting platoon raised the State Flag at 4:20 am together with the State Military Band and ethnic races and then they saluted the flag.
The ceremony was organized with the objectives: (1) to ensure cementing the discipline-flourishing genuine multiparty democratic system and build the Union based on democracy and federalism, (2) to utmost strive for ensuring the prosperity of the nation and food sufficiency as national work processes, (3) to build a better State and socioeconomic life in accord with the theme “Keep Moving Forward to Achieve Our Goal”, focusing on interests of the State and ethnic national people, (4) to initiate national solidarity and peace of the Union with a firm vow and (5) to successfully hold the free and fair multiparty democratic general elections and emerge an electoral system in which all ethnic nationals would participate proportionately. — MNA/MKKS
