Govt speeds up peace process planning, appoints state counsellor to head rebranded peace centre
Govt speeds up peace process planning, appoints state counsellor to head rebranded peace centre
Myanmar Times, 13 Jul 2016
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The state counsellor will chair the 11-member centre, which will be the central organ of the new government’s peace plan. The centre will draft the policy and a newly created peace commission, headed by National League for Democracy member U Tin Myo Win, will be tasked with implementing the plans, according to U Hla Maung Shwe, a member of the government peace team. President U Htin Kyaw announced the changes in state media yesterday.
At the request of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will have her first meeting as head of the new centre during talks with leaders of the armed groups on July 17 in Yangon, government peace negotiators said.
At the meeting, the leaders of the UNFC, an armed ethnic bloc of nine groups that did not sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA), are slated to discuss the 21st-century Panglong Conference, U Hla Maung Shwe said.
At the request of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will have her first meeting as head of the new centre during talks with leaders of the armed groups on July 17 in Yangon, government peace negotiators said.
At the meeting, the leaders of the UNFC, an armed ethnic bloc of nine groups that did not sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA), are slated to discuss the 21st-century Panglong Conference, U Hla Maung Shwe said.