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Myanmar forms preparatory committee for holding Panglong Ethnic Conference

Xinhua, May 31, 2016 Adjust font size:

Myanmar on Tuesday formed a 16-member Preparatory Committee for holding the 21st Century Panglong Ethnic Conference to work for national reconciliation and domestic peace, according to an announcement of the President's Office.

In anticipation of the emergence of a federal union, the conference is set to be inclusive of those ethnic nationalities deemed as deserving to be included.

The committee was organized with Peace Negotiator Dr. Tin Myo Win as chairman and U Kyaw Tint Swe, Minister of the State Counselor's Office, as vice chairman.

The committee is tasked to negotiate with those ceasefire signatory armed groups and non-signatory ones, and review the political framework for necessary amendment.

The committee is divided into two separate sub-committees to negotiate with the two categories of armed groups.

At a recent meeting of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC), State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to hold the 21st Century Panglong Ethnic Conference successfully which is to be convened on the basis of the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord (NCA).

The UPDJC, chaired by Suu Kyi, will remain active in the course of peace process.

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 Cease fire 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. 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. Endit