Military delegates, political party representatives to meet later this month

By DMG 04 Feb 2022

DMG Newsroom
4 February 2022, Sittwe

A military delegation led by the junta’s Lt-Gen Yar Pyae, chairman of the National Solidarity and Peace Negotiation Committee (NSPNC), and political parties still willing to engage with the regime as part of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC), are scheduled to meet later this month.

The NSPNC and participant political parties are due to meet after Union Day on February 12, though the exact date of the gathering is not known, according to Dr. Aye Maung, a member of the compliant political parties.

“We have made a decision to hold a meeting in the third week of February, after Union Day. It is not yet known when the meeting will take place. We will know [later] the contents to be discussed at the meeting,” he said.

Dr. Aye Maung added that the meeting would focus on eight areas: federalism, democratisation, governance reform, economic development, financial authority, land security, social integration, and security integration.

“What are the principles of federalism? What kind of federalism? Under the heading of construction, you can discuss almost every topic in detail. How will governance change?” Dr. Aye Maung said.

Maj-Gen Zaw Min Tun, a spokesperson for the State Administration Council (SAC), said the Myanmar military would hold peace talks with ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) that have signed the NCA, as well as EAOs that have not yet signed the NCA, and political parties.

Dr. Aye Maung, chairman of the Arakan Front Party (AFP), is part of a group of political parties that apparently continues to hold to a peace-process framework reached years ago, and which increasingly appears anachronistic since the military staged a coup on February 1, 2021, topping Myanmar’s elected civilian government.