Col. Khun Okker states that at the recent five-day, 3rd annual Ethnic Armed Organizations Summit, held in Laiza Town, the NCCT laid down a 10-point plan, details of which the group will discuss with the MPC when the two groups meet later this week.
“In the ten points, it includes a tripartite framework, and it is a new form. It is different from what [the] UN once said [the] tripartite [to be]. Yes, this [tripartite] does include three main strong groups, but these three groups will only be filled with suitable groups,” said Col. Khun Okker, in an interview with IMNA.
Col. Khun Okker continued that the three groups to be involved include a government group, an ethnic armed group, and a political group. The three groups will participate in meetings and negotiations in order to draw a political roadmap.
The NCCT plan’s remaining points include that conferences held in future political dialog should be recognized as union peace conferences, as well as other points regarding technical cooperation.
NCCT leader Nai Hongsar stated at a July 29th press conference, held in Laiza Town, that the NCCT does not accept the government’s proposal to include academic experts and civil society organizations, in future political dialog or union peace conferences, after signing nationwide ceasefire accords between the government and ethnic armed groups.
Nai Hongsar further stated that in the near future, political dialog will include government groups, ethnic armed groups, and registered political parties in the tripartite conference, allotting the same number of representatives from each group, but that the NCCT did not accept government representatives’ proposal of the so-called “eight sectors dialogue”.
In a statement released at the Ethnic Armed Organizations Summit, the NCCT included that it would maintain its stance of establishing the fact that “the national political objective of all ethnic nationalities is the federal union that grants democracy, national equality, and autonomy”.
Although there have been recent reports that the NCCT and the Union Peace-Making Work Committee (UPWC) would meet to sign a nationwide ceasefire agreement in Rangoon during the second week of August, the meeting has yet to be confirmed.
