Aung San Suu Kyi Urges Efforts Toward a 'Lasting Peace' in Myanmar
Aung San Suu Kyi Urges Efforts Toward a 'Lasting Peace' in Myanmar
Radio Free Asia, 12 Jan 2016
URL: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/peace-01122016184513.html
Myanmar’s incoming government will work hard to build peace with separatist ethnic armies left out of a cease-fire agreement signed in October, National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in a speech at the opening of a peace conference held in the capital Naypyitaw on Tuesday.
“We are ready to work for a lasting peace according to the mandate that the people gave us,” said Suu Kyi whose party swept national polls in a landslide victory Nov. 8 and will form a new government sometime early this year.
“We urgently need national reconciliation,” Suu Kyi said, taking part for the first time in peace talks in Myanmar. “We can’t build a long-term peace without it.”
Speaking as the conference opened, outgoing Myanmar president Thein Sein called the gathering an important step forward in building peace in the formerly military-ruled Southeast Asian nation.
“We are ready to work for a lasting peace according to the mandate that the people gave us,” said Suu Kyi whose party swept national polls in a landslide victory Nov. 8 and will form a new government sometime early this year.
“We urgently need national reconciliation,” Suu Kyi said, taking part for the first time in peace talks in Myanmar. “We can’t build a long-term peace without it.”
Speaking as the conference opened, outgoing Myanmar president Thein Sein called the gathering an important step forward in building peace in the formerly military-ruled Southeast Asian nation.