Ethnic leaders to gather at conference before planned UPWC-NCCT meeting ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®® Ahead of the planned UPWC-NCCT meeting at Myanmar Peace Centre in Yangon in June, ethnic leaders will gather at a summit to hold further discussions on a second draft single text document to cement a ceasefire, Pado Saw Kwe Htoo Win, one of the NCCT leaders and KNU secretary-general, has said. According to him, a date has not yet been set, but the city of Tachilek was suggested as the meeting place by Union Minister U Aung Min, following the meeting between the Union Peace-Making Work Committee-UPWC and the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team-NCCT last week. Pado Saw Kwe Htoo Win who led the NCCT in the three-day meeting which wrapped up Friday told media that U Aung Min pledged government’s support for the ethnic conference. In his concluding speech after the talks the union minister said the UPWC will assist ethnic leaders if they want to hold an ethnic summit like the Laiza and Lawkheela conferences. Pado Saw Kwe Htoo Win said the NCCT needs to seek approval from ethnic leaders on several points that have yet to be agreed on. The second draft of the single text document has, however, been approved with the decision made that the final version will be written in June. “As the NCCT is a coordination team, we have to present our report on the second draft document to the decision-makers at the ethnic conference,” Pado Saw Kwe Htoo Win said. The UPWC and NCCT —representing 16 ethnic armed groups concluded discussions on the 7-chapter document that includes 122 points of which nearly 100 were agreed on by the end of the second meeting as 77 points had been agreed on at the first draft single text meeting. U Hla Maung Shwe of MPC said political dialogue might be held before the end of this year if the signing of the ceasefire agreement takes place in July or August after finalizing the single text at the end of June. According to an agreement that needs no further coordination between UPWC and NCCT, a framework meeting shall be held within 60 days and a political dialogue within 90 days after the signing of a nationwide ceasefire agreement, he added. According to local reports, NCCT leaders met Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the NLD’s chairperson, and members of the 88 Generation Peace and Open Society and United Nationalities Alliance- UNA separately during their stay in Yangon. ®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®® ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 06:08:48 +0000
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