IndiaMyanmarThailand Trilateral Highwayhas been a “very difficult project” because of the situation in Myanmar and it is the government’s priority to find ways to resume it, External Affairs Minister SJaishankarsaid.
Jaishankar is here to participate in the 12th Foreign Ministers’ Meeting of the Mekong Ganga Cooperation (MGC) Mechanism and attend the BIMSTEC Foreign Ministers’ Retreat.
India, Thailand and Myanmar are working on about 1,400-km-long highway that would link the country with Southeast Asia by land and give a boost to trade, business, Health, Education and tourism ties among the three countries.
Around 70 per cent of construction work on the ambitious India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway has been completed.
The highway will connect Moreh in Manipur, India with Mae Sot in Thailand via Myanmar.
The strategic highway project has been delayed. Earlier, the government was aiming to make the highway operational by December 2019.