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Nu-Atlee Agreement for Burma's Independence Signed 

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17 October 1947

Today, 52 years ago, a treaty recognizing independence of Burma was signed by the Right Honorable Clement Richard Atlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Honorable Thakin Nu, Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of Burma. 

The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland agreed "to invite Parliament to pass legislation at an early date providing that Burma shall become an independent state". 
Burma Independence Bill stipulated that Burma would become independent on "the fourth day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-eight", a country "neither forming part of His Majesty's dominions nor entitled to His Majesty's protection". 

The treaty was signed in London. 

It was also reported that the Panglong Agreement, signed between Aung San, U Nu's predecessor, and the non-Burman representatives, on 12 February together with their ratification of the draft constitution of future Burma on 24 September, had helped to secure the Anglo-Burman treaty.