Maung Maung Aye
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| Secretary of the Union Consultative Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 10 April 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Appointed by | Min Aung Hlaing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairperson | Soe Win | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Office established | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1962 (age 63–64) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Defence Services Academy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Allegiance |  Myanmar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years of service | 1980–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank |  General | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maung Maung Aye (Burmese: မောင်မောင်အေး; pronounced [maʊɰ̃ maʊɰ̃ʔ]; born 1962) is a Burmese army general who has served as a member of the State Administration Council and Chief of General Staff for the Army, Navy, and Air Force in February 2021. He was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister of Myanmar and Union Minister of the Ministry of Defence on 18 December 2024.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
Maung Maung Aye was born in 1962 in Thanlyin, Burma (now Myanmar).[4][5] He joined the Myanmar Armed Forces in the 1980s, and he enrolled at the Defence Services Academy (DSA) in Pyin Oo Lwin.[6][7][8]
Military career
Maung Maung Aye’s military career began in the early 1980s.[9] He was appointed to the Naypyidaw Regional Military Command under the rank of brigadier general in August 2010,and continued to serve there atleast until 27 March 2015. At some point of time, he was appointed to the rank of major general on 3 September 2011.[10]
He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general and became Chief of Armed Forces Training in August 2015, until 4 February 2021, after the 2021 Myanmar coup d'etat. After that he was appointed to Joint Chief of Staff on 4 February 2021 with the same military rank.[11]
He was appointed to the rank of general on 24 March 2021 and served with the same position, until 27 September 2023.[1][12][13]
He became a member of the State Administration Council (SAC), lately after the 2021 Myanmar coup d'etat. He was appointed to the high-ranking positions of Deputy Prime Minister and Union Minister of Defence under Section 419 of the Constitution of Myanmar on 18 December 2024. He was also the former Chief of General Staff for the army, navy, and air force until December 2024.
Sanctions
Maung Maung Aye was sanctioned by Canada and the European Union for his involvement in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'etat.[14][2] He is being designated pursuant to E.O. 14014 for his direct involvement with the military and holding the high-ranking senior ranks and positions within the institution.[15]
References
- 1 2 "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၈၅ / ၂၀၂၃ ၁၃၈၅ ခုနှစ်၊ တော်သလင်းလဆန်း ၁၁ ရက် (၂၀၂၃ ခုနှစ်၊ စက်တင်ဘာလ ၂၅ ရက်) နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်း ("State Administration Council of the Republic of Myanmar Order No. 85 / 2023 1385, 11th of Talin La San (September 25, 2023) Amending and Establishing the State Administration Council"". CINCDS Myanmar. 25 September 2023.
- 1 2 "Restrictive measures in view of the situation in Myanmar/Burma". Sanctions Map EU.
- ↑ "Chief of the General Staff (Army, Navy and Air) General Maung Maung Aye attends Field Training Exercise in Vladivostok of Russia". Myanmar Digital News. 2 October 2023.
- ↑ "Chief of General Staff (Army, Navy and Air) General Maung Maung Aye Separately Meets Military Leaders of ASEAN Countries and Attends Welcome Dinner". infosheet.org. 17 March 2022. Archived from the original on 11 October 2024. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
- ↑ "US, UK, and Canada impose coordinated sanctions targeting the Myanmar/Burma military regime". Willkie Compliance Concourse. 1 November 2023.
- ↑ "Military MPs Will Not Join Talks on Committee to Amend Myanmar's Constitution". Radio Free Asia. 31 January 2019.
- ↑ "ASEAN aiding and abetting the Myanmar junta's atrocities through counter terrorism military training in Russia". Justice for Myanmar. 30 September 2023.
- ↑ Htet Myet Min Tun (26 January 2022). "Myanmar's State Administration Council: A Shell Entity?". Fulcrum.
- ↑ Htet Myet Min Tun, Moe Thuzar, Michael J. Montesano (4 August 2021). "Min Aung Hlaing and His Generals: Some Biographical Notes". Fulcrum.
- ↑ "Air force chief among those removed from posts as junta's reliance on planes and helicopters grows". Myanmar NOW. 14 January 2022.
- ↑ "ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး မောင်မောင်အေး ကြည်း၊ ရေ၊ လေ ညှိနှိုင်းကွပ်ကဲရေးမှူး ဖြစ်လာ ("Lieutenant General Maung Maung Aye Becomes Commander of Army, Water, and Air Coordination Command")". The Irrawaddy. 4 September 2021.
- ↑ "စစ်ကောင်စီ - နှစ်နှစ်ကျော်အတွင်း စစ်ကောင်စီဝင် ၁၁ ဦးအထိ ဖယ်ရှားခံရ ("State Administration Council - Up to 11 Myanmar military members removed in over two years"". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). 27 September 2023. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
- ↑ RFA Burmese (26 September 2023). "စစ်ကောင်စီအဖွဲ့ အပြောင်းအလဲ အဖွဲ့တွင်းမတည်ငြိမ်မှုနဲ့ အက်ကွဲမှုကိုပြသ (Military Council changes reveal instability and divisions within the group)". Radio Free Asia.
- ↑ "General Maung Maung Aye is the Chief of General Staff for the Myanmar army, navy, and air force. This is the third most senior role in the Myanmar military". OpenSanctions. 17 February 2024.
- ↑ "Treasury Prohibits Financial Services with Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise and Imposes Additional Sanctions on Burma Military Regime Officials and Supporters". U.S. Department of Treasury. 31 October 2023.