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Myanmar state counselor to lead domestic peace process

Xinhua, April 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi will lead the domestic peace process and will meet the Joint Cease fire Monitoring Committee (JCMC) Wednesday, said a military official Lt-Gen Yapye at a meeting of the JCMC Tuesday.

Tuesday's JCMC meeting was the first held after the new government took office on April 1.

Regarding the internal peace process, Suu Kyi has highly appreciated the previous government's ceasefire initiative, calling for continuation to strive to include in the ceasefire accord those organizations deemed appropriate for inclusion.

Myanmar's previous government and eight ethnic armed groups out of 15 signed the Nationwide Cease fire Accord (NCA) on Oct. 15, 2015. After that a union-level Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee (JCMC) was formed along with a tripartite Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) which was to draft a framework for holding political dialogue as part of the implementation of the NCA.

Under the NCA, the two sides agreed on some post-ceasefire steps and the unfinished peace process includes bringing in seven other ethnic armed groups that have not signed the ceasefire accord to complete the truce signing process.

In January last year, Myanmar held the first Union Peace Conference in Nay Pyi Taw, the biggest gathering of political forces in the country in over six decades, involving hundreds of representatives from stakeholder groups of the government, parliament, military and eight ethnic armed groups out of 15, who signed the NCA, as well as political parties and other players

The conference proposed the unfinished discussions to be carried out through to a future similar conference in the next term of the government.

Four proposals were raised to the conference, which include exerting effort to finish the national-level political dialogue and convening of the second union peace conference at appropriate time.

Peace process establishment and the negotiated points at the union peace conference are to be handed over to the new government.

However, in last November , fighting erupted between two armed groups -- Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) or Shan State Army-South (SSA-S), led by Ywet Sit, and Taaung National Liberation Army (TNLA), in Shan state's Namhkam township and their clashes intensified in mid-February this year, forcing nearly 4,000 people to flee the area.

In the wake of the clashes, an important proposal was then submitted to the parliamentary House of Representatives (Lower House) , urging to end the current conflict in Shan state-North's Palaung autonomous zones and Kyaukme township as soon as possible. Enditem