Arakan National Council calls for all-inclusion on road to federal, democratic Myanmar

By Admin 31 Mar 2023

DMG Newsroom
31 March 2023, Sittwe

The Arakan National Council/Arakan Army (ANC/AA) has urged the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) to create a landscape in which all the pro-democracy and ethnic revolutionary forces can participate in building a federal Union.

The ANC said this and more in a message on Friday commemorating the second anniversary of the adoption of the Federal Democracy Charter.

The charter was adopted by Spring Revolution forces that emerged following the military coup of February 1, 2021, and some ethnic armed revolutionary organisations, and is an important pact in the history of Myanmar’s struggle to establish a federal, democratic Union, said the ANC.

The ANC called for improving the Federal Democracy Charter to build a clearer picture of the future Union desired by all oppressed people, as well as adopting principles and guidelines for the establishment of a future nation with greater representation, responsibility, accountability, transparency, and solidarity.

The NUCC organised an online event to mark the second anniversary of the adoption of the Federal Democracy Charter on Friday. Officials of both ethnic revolutionary organisations and post-coup democratic forces joined the event.

Duwa Lashi La, the acting president of the parallel National Unity Government (NUG), admitted that there are still difficulties in putting the principles of the Federal Democracy Charter into practice. The NUG is fighting through the popular Spring Revolution, nonetheless, based on the principles enshrined in the Federal Democracy Charter, he added.

“We uphold the policy of all inclusion. It should be known that there are practical problems in realising basic principles in the Federal Democracy Charter,” he said.

“The charter is the political pact agreed by all revolutionary forces, and is the policy of the new country,” he continued.

The NUCC is made up of representatives of ethnic revolutionary organisations, the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, political parties, interim federal unit committees, and civil society organisations.