title: Win (Burmese diplomat)
text: # Win (Burmese diplomat)
  
  Maha Thray Sithu Win was a Burmese diplomat, politician and lawyer.
  
  ## Life
  
  * From 1930 to 1942 he was Senior Master at the Education Department.
  * From 1942 to 1944, during Japanese occupation, he was Deputy Director in charge of Labour.
  * From 1945 to 1947 he was President, Trade Union Congress (Burma).
  * In 1947 he was:
  * Leader of the Burma Socialist Party and Member in the Constituent Assembly from the Lanmadaw Township Rangoon.
  * Vice-President of the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League.
  * Member of Governor's Executive Council in charge of Industry and Labour,
  * High Commissioner for Burma in India.
  * From 1948 to 1950 he was Ambassador in New Delhi.
  * On September 28, 1948 he was designated Minister for Education and Democratisation of Local Administration.
  * On January 3, 1950 he was designated Minister for DLA (Democratisation of Local Administration), Public Health, Rehabilitation and Public Works.
  * From September 14, 1950 to 1952 he was Minister for Defence, Home and Religious Affairs.
  * On August 30, 1951 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies from Yamethin South.
  * On March 16, 1952 he was designated Minister for National Planning and Religious Affairs.
  * On September 5, 1953 he was designated Minister for Union Culture.
  * From December 5, 1955 to August 21, 1959 he was ambassador in Washington, D.C. and concurrently till 1957 Permanent Representative next the Headquarters of the United Nations.
  * Within the Headquarters of the United Nations he was chairman of the Asian-African Group.
  * In August 1958 he was designated and on October 9, 1958 co-accredited as Myanmar Ambassador to Canada.
  * In 1959 he became Member of the Executive Committee of the Clean AFPFL.
  * In March 1960 he became Treasurer of the Union Party (Burma).
  * On March 17, 1961 he resigned with entire Executive Committee of the Clean AFPFL.
  