EU ends funding for MPC and says assets must stay

As a major donor to Myanmar’s peace process over the past five years, the EU expression of concern over what will happen to these assets follows reported moves by senior officials of the MPC, including its chair, government minister U Aung Min, to set up their own institution.

The state of uncertainty hanging over the MPC looks set to continue for some weeks as Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s incoming government works out how to handle logistics and personnel involved in the peace process. The MPC remains deeply distrusted by the ethnic armed groups outside the ceasefire pact signed last year. (Courtesy of Myanmar Times)