Myanmar Armed Ethnic Groups Talk Peace with Government’s New Mediator
Myanmar Armed Ethnic Groups Talk Peace with Government’s New Mediator
Radio Free Asia, 05 May 2016
URL: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/myanmar-armed-ethnic-groups-talk-peace-wtih-governments-new-mediator-05052016161519.html
Eight armed ethnic groups met informally with the Myanmar government’s new peace envoy on Wednesday in Yangon to discuss how to advance peace and reform the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) before upcoming peace talks, the leader of a rebel group who attended the meeting said.
Representatives of the groups, who signed a nationwide cease-fire agreement (NCA) last October, discussed their position on the peace process.
“We held the meeting informally and Dr. Tin Myo Win came unofficially as well,” he told RFA's Myanmar Service.
They proposed to Tin Myo Win that the UPDJC be given equal footing in peace negotiations, it said.
They also gave Tin Myo Win a letter addressed to State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi prior to an official NLD meeting to discuss the peace process on May 10 in the capital Naypyidaw.
Representatives of the groups, who signed a nationwide cease-fire agreement (NCA) last October, discussed their position on the peace process.
“We held the meeting informally and Dr. Tin Myo Win came unofficially as well,” he told RFA's Myanmar Service.
They proposed to Tin Myo Win that the UPDJC be given equal footing in peace negotiations, it said.
They also gave Tin Myo Win a letter addressed to State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi prior to an official NLD meeting to discuss the peace process on May 10 in the capital Naypyidaw.