Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the country’s chief peace negotiator Aung Min to discuss reconciliation with armed ethnic groups as her National League for Democracy (NLD) prepares to form a new government after sweeping general elections last month, a party official said Wednesday.
The meeting preceded a decision Wednesday by a bloc of 11 ethnic armed groups to form a committee for negotiations with the incoming NLD administration on the so-called nationwide cease-fire agreement (NCA) signed Oct. 15 between eight insurgent armies and the government.
Aung Min, the head of the government-affiliated Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) in Yangon, held a discussion with Aung San Suu Kyi Monday afternoon on the status of the peace process, senior NLD staffer Win Htein said of the closed-door meeting at her office in the capital Naypyidaw.
“Minister Aung Min met Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and explained how [government negotiators] went about signing the NCA and what the MPC has been doing,” he told RFA’s Myanmar Service.
“He explained the process as [the NLD under] Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will be leading the country soon. She recognized and praised the efforts that led to the signing of the NCA and she reviewed various points from the pact ahead of future peace talks.”
Win Htein said Aung San Suu Kyi explained to Aung Min, who is also vice chair of the government’s Union Peacemaking Working Committee (UPWC), why she opted out of signing the NCA on behalf of the NLD when the agreement was ratified by parliament on Tuesday, although he did not provide details of what she told the minister. (Courtesy of RFA)
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