Myanmar's State Counselor urges for inclusiveness in peace process

Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday urged for inclusion of persons deemed appropriate in every step of national reconciliation and peace process.

At a meeting chaired by Suu Kyi and involved representatives of the government, military and Reconciliation and Peace Center (NRPC) , it was agreed to undertake works related to the formation of NRPC and preparations to hold a 21st-century ethnic conference identical to the historical Pinlong Conference.

Aung San Suu Kyi stressed the need to hold the ethnic conference within one or two months without delay at the Joint Monitoring Committee for ceasefire in Nay Pyi Taw in April.

In January, the previous government of Myanmar held the first Union Peace Conference in Nay Pyi Taw, the biggest gathering of political forces in the country in over six decades .

Peace process establishment and the negotiated points at the last union peace conference were to be handed over to the new government.

The previous government of Myanmar and eight ethnic armed groups out of 15 signed the Nationwide Cease fire Accord (NCA) on Oct.15, 2015. Enditem