JULY 21, 2015, Yangon, Myanmar – The Ethnic Armed Organizations’ Senior Delegation (SD) for the nationwide ceasefire negotiation announced today that the following SD members are now in Yangon for conclusive negotiations with the government representatives at the Myanmar Peace Center to begin on July 22, 2015:
Yan Linn Soe, a 21 year-old cadet from the Arakan Army, fell as the Burma Army attacked the Kachin Independence Army’s Military Academy on 19.11.2014 with 105mm howitzer.
Ye Win Htun, a 23 year-old cadet from the Arakan Army,
Khaing Htun, a 21 year-old cadet from the Arakan ArmyKyaw Khant, a 21 year-old cadet from the Arakan Army,Thein Than Naing, a 23 year-old cadet from the Arakan ArmyKo Saw Tin, a 23 year-old cadet from the Arakan Army,Htet Htet Aung, a 24 year-old cadet from the Arakan Army,Aung Aung Than, a 23 year-old cadet from the Arakan Army,
The next round of meetings of the United Nationalities Federation Council (UNFC), the alliance of Burma’s armed ethnic groups, won’t happen until January 2014. Originally the meeting was supposed to take place in December in territory controlled by the Karen National Union (KNU).
UNFC joint secretary Colonel Khun Okka was quoted by the Daily Eleven newspaper on Thursday as saying the meeting had been delayed and would be held from January 5th to 15th.
A previous meeting involving groups who were part of the UNFC and several other armed groups not part of the UNFC took place in late October at the Kachin Independence Organizaton’s (KIO) Laiza headquarters. The Laiza conference which involved representatives of 17 of Burma’s armed ethnic groups ended with a statement that all but one of the groups attending jointly signed. The declaration outlined the various groups willingness to have a national ceasefire under certain conditions. The Shan State Army (SSA) delegation did not agree to the Laiza declaration for reasons that remain unclear.
The armed rebel groups are also expected to meet with the government’s negotiating team in Karen state shortly after the meeting in the KNU area. This meeting was also originally expected to happen in December but has been postponed till January.
EMG – A national ceasefire agreement is still far from being concluded due to the government’s draft accord containing unacceptable provisions for ethnic armed groups.
NCCT meeting second day on November 27 in Chiang Mai
Naing Han Tha, the secretary of United Nationalities Federation Council (UNFC), said there were still different views between the government and armed groups over a nationwide ceasefire accord.
“We will meet again in Hpa-an. How can they (government) compromise? How can we compromise? We can guess the solution could be sought during the Hpa-an meeting. We cannot tell now,” said Naing Han Tha.
Naing Han Tha, who also leads the National Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT), hinted that progress could be achieved through a series of meetings and by maintaining the already-discussed peace processes.
He added that during a meeting with the NCCT held earlier this month in Myitkyina, Kachin State, the government shared its draft ceasefire accord with armed groups. However, it was difficult to move forward as the draft contained provisions which went beyond the points discussed in the regional and union-level peace talks.
He insisted that coordination would continue.
The Hpa-an meeting is scheduled to take place in mid-December between the Union Peacemaking Work Committee and NCCT which was formed with the ethnic armed groups after the Laiza conference in Kachin State.
The meeting will follow the second conference of the ethnic armed groups due to take place in early December in area under the Karen National Union (KNU).
NCCT members are preparing to submit their own draft ceasefire draft plan containing the position of ethnic armed groups after discussing the 11-point common agreement reached after a meeting of the UNFC held recently in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
ျမန္မာျပည္သည္ ေရခဲျပင္ႏွင့္လည္းေကာင္း၊ သဲကႏၱာရႏွင့္လည္းေကာင္း ေဝးကြာေသာေနရာ တြင္ တည္ရွိၿပီး ပူေႏြးစြပ္စုိုေသာရာသီဥတု ရွိသည္။ မိုးေရကိုလုံေလာက္စြာရရွိ၍ အပင္မ်ဳိးစုံျဖစ္ထြန္းေသာ ရာသီဥတုလည္းရွိသည္။ ေျမၾသဇာေကာင္းမြန္ၿပီး သီးႏွံမ်ဳိးစုံကိုစိုက္ပ်ဳိးႏုိင္ေသာ အနိမ့္ပိုင္းလယ္ေျမ ကုန္းေျမ ျပန္႔ ႏွင့္ အျမင့္ပိုင္းေတာင္ေပၚဆင္ေျခေလ်ွာေျမမ်ဳိးစုံ ရွိသည္။ သဘာဝသယံဇာတတြင္ သစ္ေတာ ဝါးေတာ လ်ွပ္စစ္ဓါတ္အားထုတ္လုပ္နိုုင္ေသာေတာင္က်စမ္းေရ ႏွင့္ ျမစ္ေခ်ုာင္းမ်ားစြာ ရွိသည္။ တြင္းထြက္ပစၥည္းမ်ား ျဖစ္ေသာ ေရႊ၊ ေငြ၊ ေၾကးနီ၊ ခဲအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး၊ တန္ဘိုးျမင့္ေက်ာက္မ်က္ရတနာမ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ ပတၱျမား၊ နီလာ၊ ေက်ာက္စိမ္း၊ သဘာဝေလာင္စာျဖစ္ေသာ ေရနံ၊ ဓါတ္ေငြ႔ႏွင့္ ေက်ာက္မီးေသြး စသည္တို႔လည္း မ်ားစြာ ရွိပါသည္။ နိုင္ငံတကာႏွင့္ကူးသန္းေရာင္းဝယ္ရန္ ပင္လယ္ျပင္ႏွင့္ထိစပ္ေနေသာကမ္းရိုးတန္း ရွည္လ်ွားစြာ ရွိၿပီး ထိုပင္လယ္ျပင္တြင္ ငါး၊ ပုဇြန္တို႔လည္း အလြန္ေပါမ်ားသည္။ ႏုိင္ငံအက်ယ္အဝန္းဧရိယာစတုရန္းမိုင္ ႏွစ္သိန္းေျခာက္ေသာင္းေက်ာ္တြင္ လူဦးေရသန္းငါးဆယ္ေက်ာ္သာရွိသျဖင့္ နယ္ေျမႏွင့္လူဦးေရသည္ က်ပ္ တည္းေသာအေျခအေနလည္း မဟုတ္။ ထိုသို႔ေသာပကတိတည္ရွိမႈအေနအထားမ်ဳိးတြင္ ပုံမွန္အေျခအေန သာဆိုလ်ွင္ ခ်မ္းသာၾကြယ္ဝေသာနိုင္ငံတခု ျဖစ္ေနမည္မွာေသခ်ာသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ျမန္မာျပည္သည္ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးမႈ နိမ့္က်ဆုံး (LDC) စာရင္းဝင္နိုင္ငံ တႏုိင္ငံ ျဖစ္ေနရသည္။ အေရွ့ေတာင္အာရွအဖဲြ႔ဝင္ႏုိင္ငံမ်ား (အာဆီ ယံအဖြဲ႔)အၾကားတြင္ တခ်ိန္ကလူေနမႈအဆင့္ အျမင့္မားဆုံး၊ တိုးတက္ခ်မ္းသာဆုံးႏုိင္ငံတနိုင္ငံ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ေသာ္ လည္း ယခုအခါအာဆီယံအဖြဲ႔ဝင္ႏုိင္ငံမ်ားအၾကား ဆင္းရဲက်ပ္တည္းဆုံးႏုိင္ငံ ျဖစ္ေနရသည္။ အဘယ္ ေၾကာင့္ ဤသို႔ျဖစ္ရွိလာရသနည္း။ သုံးသပ္ေဝဖန္ဆန္းစစ္ရန္ လြန္စြာလိုအပ္ေနပါသည္။ ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ ဘာသာစကား၊ စာေပ၊ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ၊ ဓေလ့ထုံးစံ၊ မ်ားျပားေသာ လူဦးေရ၊ စုစည္းေနထိုင္ရာနယ္ေျမႏွင့္ Continue reading “#ျမန္မာျပည္ ေအးခ်မ္းတည္ၿငိမ္တိုးတက္ေစမည့္နည္းလမ္း” 
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