January 17, 2016

UPC enters day 4; groups discuss 5 topics

A five-day Union Peace Conference (UPC) underway at Nay Pyi Taw, capital of Myanmar, entered fourth day on Friday with representatives from seven stakeholder groups discussing five topics. In today’s session, questions raised on the third day were replied to and individual presentations were made.

Representatives from the respective stakeholder groups prepared papers for submission on the final day of the conference.

Three representatives each will be chosen for the submission of papers on each of the agenda items to the conference, Myanmar News Agency quoted its sources as saying on Friday.

Stakeholder groups of the government and the Parliament are set to send two representatives each while the Tatmadaw, ethnic armed organisations and political parties are set to choose three for the submission of papers.

One representative each is set to represent stakeholder groups of ethnic minorities and other invitees.

It may be mentioned that NSCN (K), the only group that did not sign Nation-wide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), is attending the conference an observer. (Courtesy of Nagaland Post)

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