May 6, 2016

NCA Signatories Meet Tin Myo Win, Tipped as NLD’s Lead Peace Envoy

Representatives of eight non-state armed groups that signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) in October met on Wednesday with Dr. Tin Myo Win, personal physician of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, to discuss reforming a body key to peace negotiations, the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC).

The ethnic representatives met Tin Myo Win at Green Hill Hotel in Rangoon, according to Saw Mya Yazar Lin, a central executive member of the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP), an NCA signatory. The doctor has been tipped as the NLD government’s lead peace negotiator with ethnic armed groups, assuming the role taken by President’s Office Minister Aung Min in the previous military-backed government.

“We invited Dr. Tin Myo Win to talk and explained to him our current political stance. We talked about how to move forward peacefully, avoiding political deadlock in the future,” said the ALP’s Saw Mya Yazar Lin. (Courtesy of Irrawaddy)

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