YANGON, March 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Indian President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam left here Saturday for Mauritius after winding up his three-day state visit to Myanmar.

    During the visit, the two countries signed four documents on bilateral cooperation including a memorandum of understanding (MoU)on petroleum cooperation. According to the MoU, India will seek laying a land route pipeline through border areas to evacuate natural gas from two blocks of Myanmar's gas fields in the Rakhine offshore area, while not giving up the original approach to transport gas through Bangladesh.

    A document endorsed was the framework agreement on using India's satellite to directly receive data for agricultural forecasting.To upgrade the remote sensing ground receiving station in Yangon, India is to provide a grant of 1.3 million U.S. dollars of aid to Myanmar.

    A contract agreement signed between the Myanma Posts and Telecommunications under the Ministry of Communications, Posts and Telegraph and the Telecommunications Consultants India Limited wasto implement SDH/STM 4 optical fiber link between Moreh, northeastern border town of India, and Mandalay, the second biggest city in central Myanmar, and the ADSL systems.

    Another MoU was on cooperation in Buddhist studies. Religious institutions of the two countries will cooperate to promote Buddhist culture and education by preparing a database of traditional centers of Buddhist learning in the two countries and enhancing exchange.

    As disclosed by the Indian side, India will grant 3 million dollars of assistance with delineation of Myanmar's continental shelf in addition to technical assistance for the project, according to the document.

    India will also extend 10 million dollars' line of credit to cover Myanmar's contribution to the Kaladam multi-modal river transportation project and another 20 million dollars' line of credit for purchase of heavy duty water pumps for agricultural undertakings.

    The two sides agreed to start implementing as soon as possible a border road directly linking India's Mizoram state and Falam, northwestern Myanmar's Chin state, and a hydropower project, the Tamanthi, as well as a 1,400-kilometer trilateral highway project linking South Asia and Southeast Asia, which extends as Moreh (India)-Tamu (Myanmar)- Myawaddy (Myanmar)- Maesot (Thailand).

    India views that the visit to Myanmar of the Indian president constitutes an important milestone to the two countries' bilateral relations with a concrete result obtained. India also said it attaches very high value to the president's trip to the Southeast Asian neighbor. Enditem