[4] In October 2007, he received an additional concurrent appointment as minister for relations to detained National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

[6] After leaving full-time military service, he was named deputy minister for labor in November 2006, and in that capacity has been in charge of relations with the International Labour Organization.

In February 2007, he brokered a deal with the ILO to establish a new system of reporting of complaints of forced labor.

[5] The junta then sought to reopen talks with Suu Kyi, the detained leader of the National League for Democracy.

[10] The creation of the Cabinet-level position of liaison minister, to "smooth relations with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi", had been suggested to the State Peace and Development Council by United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari, who had been working on a diplomatic solution to the political crisis in Myanmar.