Eight armed ethnic groups met informally with the Myanmar government’s new peace envoy on Wednesday in Yangon to discuss how to advance peace and reform the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) before upcoming peace talks, the leader of a rebel group who attended the meeting said.
Representatives of the groups, who signed a nationwide cease-fire agreement (NCA) last October, discussed their position on the peace process and the refashioning of the UPDJC, a 48-member body formed last November to implement political dialogue between the government and ethnic armed groups, said Khun Okka, chairman of the Pa-Oh National Liberation Organization (PNLO), one of the rebel organizations in attendance.
“We held the meeting informally and Dr. Tin Myo Win came unofficially as well,” he told RFA's Myanmar Service.
The groups expressed their concern about the role of the Ceasefire Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC), which has assumed control of political decision-making since the new National League for Democracy (NLD) government came into power in April, the online journal The Irrawaddy reported. (Courtesy of RFA)
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