Myanmar’s chief peace negotiator led a government peace-making delegation on Monday in meeting with an alliance of armed ethnic groups that did not sign last year’s nationwide cease-fire agreement to try to persuade them to join the accord.
Aung Min, minister of the president’s office, and members of the Union Peacemaking Working Committee (UPWC) met with leaders of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), an alliance of armed ethnic groups, at the end of the UNFC’s meeting in Chang Mai, Thailand, which began on Feb. 18.
The UPWC is trying to get UNFC members to sign the government’s nationwide cease-fire agreement (NCA), which it inked last October with eight other armed ethnic groups, before a new government led by the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) takes power on April 1.
The UNFC, which now includes nine non-signatories to the peace pact, maintains that a peace agreement with the government to end decades of civil wars within the country should include all armed ethnic groups. (Courtesy of RFA)
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