UNA leaders’ meeting scheduled for end of December

The leaders of the United Nationalities Alliance (UNA) will convene at the end of this month for the first time following the 2015 general election.

The decision came after the UNA representatives’ meeting in Yangon on December 19.

“We saw a full complement of attendances, even though the meeting was aimed at the secretaries. Almost all UNA members attended the meeting. We agreed to hold the UNA leaders’ meeting in Yangon at the end of this month,” said Aye Tha Aung of the Arakan National Party (ANP), who is one of the leaders of the UNA.

The UNA was formed by the political parties that won the 1990 general election. The organisation’s first conference was held in December 2002. The conference of the UNA and its allied organisations has been held three times.

“The leaders’ meeting of the UNA will take a review of attitudes and stances within the UNA, prepare to reorganise the UNA to further strength it and assess the role of the ethnic armed organisations in the peace process. Three representatives each, including the leaders of UNA member groups, are allowed to attend the UNA leaders’ meeting. We will try together with the ethnic political parties to seek a path to peace and establish federal Union,” Aye Tha Aung said. (Courtesy of Eleven Myanmar)