Meeting for Peace: Third day talks with delegation of EAOs conducted

The third-day meeting between the State Peace Talks Team and the delegation of five Ethnic Armed Organizations, Peace Process Steering Team-PPST members, took place at the National Solidarity and Peacemaking Centre in Nay Pyi Taw in the afternoon on December 29.

The meeting was attended by State Administration Council Member Union Minister at the Government Office Chairman of the National Solidarity and Peacemaking Negotiation Committee-NSPNC Peace Talks Team Leader Lt-Gen Yar Pyae and members — SAC Member Lt-Gen Moe Myint Tun and NSPNC Secretary Lt Gen Min Naung — and NSPNC members Lt-Gen Min Naing, Lt-Gen Win Bo Shein, Lt-Gen Aye Win and Colonel Wunna Aung, and leaders of ethnic armed organizations - EAOs — signatories to the NCA — Patron Phyar Tan Khun Okkar of the Pa-O National Liberation Organization-PNLO, Vice Chair Saw Mra Yazar Linn of the Arakan Liberation Party-ALP, Commander-in-Chief Saw Steel of the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army-DKBA, Vice-Chair Dr Naw Kapaw Htoo of the Karen National Union/Karen National Liberation Army-KNU/KNLA-PC (Peace Council), Vice-Chair KyarPhu of the Lahu Democratic Union-LDU and representatives of peace talks.

At the meeting, the opinions of both sides according to the discussions and negotiations during the 3 days period were discussed again, the final agreements were approved and signed and exchanged them.

Next, the SPTT Leader Lt-Gen Yar Pyae, and Patron Phyar Tan Khun Okkar of PNLO on behalf of the participating ethnic armed organizations, gave the speech of conclusion and presented the gift of SANDISOLAR MONO 18V5W lamps provided by the Ministry of Border Affairs, it’s learnt.