Naypyitaw has closed the list of armed groups to be invited to sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) at 16, according to U Aung Min, Vice Chairman of the Union Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC) and Minister for President’s Office yesterday. “That doesn’t mean we should leave out the remai...

RANGOON — As Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak visited Burma, Thai and Burmese officials signed 16 bilateral business memoranda of understanding (MOUs) on Thursday in Naypyidaw. The 16 MOUs in six different business sectors were designed to foster greater cooperation between Th...

Montenegro’s Human Rights Ombudsman and UNHCR signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement, with the aim of carrying out joint activities in the area of protection and promotion of human rights of asylum seekers, refugees, displaced persons and stateless persons.