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Myanmar president pledges to form new government, transfer power successfully

Xinhua, December 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

Myanmar President U Thein Sein on Saturday pledged to try his best to form the new government and smoothly transfer power to the next government successfully.

In his formal message to the country's people, U Thein Sein stressed that every government should take into consideration to have continuous success in transforming democracy process and development in the country in a calm and peaceful manner.

He urged all stakeholders to participate in peace process, underlining that implementing a framework for political dialogue which is to be set up soon is being drafted by a special dialogue framework drafting committee.

The remaining ethnic armed groups which have not participated in signing the Nationwide Cease fire Accord (NCA) are needed to take the people's lives in conflict areas into account and to take part in signing NCA and cooperate in holding political dialogue, he said.

"It is needed to take lesson from the recent tragedy accident with massive death as a giant amount of dump soil from jade mining collapsed in Phakant of Myanmar's northernmost Kachin State, by revising the policy laid down for such risky work sites in the country," the President emphasized. Endit