Nai Aung Magay, a member of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) Implementation Coordination Committee told the Mon News Agency that the fourth Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong, will be held with 230 representatives in Nay Pyi Taw on August 13.
“Conference will be held over three days on August [13, 14, 15]. Each EAO will have five members. With ten EAO’s … so 50 EAO members, plus 50 soldiers, and 50 members in the 24 political parties and other organizations, the total representatives must have 230 members,” calculated Nai Aung Magay.
The Government and the Ethnic army representatives will discuss the conference result, known as the Union Accord-3 and they will also revisit some other topics that have been previously discussed.
“The Union Accord-3 has three parts. The first, we report 20 parts of the NCA to the implementation agreement and we have gotten through 12 parts, at the moment. In the upcoming discussion, we expect to examine the next 4 parts. The second part deals with, beyond 2020 and that has eight topics of implementation and we have already discussed five topics at the previous conference. The third part, will include the basic principles of federal guidance.” he added.
The eight topics of implementation are i) the separation of power, ii) resource allocation, iii) tax sharing, iv) self-governance laws guaranteeing the right of States to self-determination, and v) sharing State powers. The remaining 3 topics pertain to the Ethnic armies.
Implementation leader of the ethnic armed organizations who signed the National Ceasefire Agreement (NCA-S EAO), Colonel Sai Ngin said “the Government’s implementation group and the NCA-S EAO implementation group will hold discussions August [25,26,27). Each side needs to prepare for discussions. Each side has had more time, I believe a good result will follow.”
Ethnic Armies who signed the NCA, held an Implementation Coordination Meeting in Yangon on July 23,24.
Before preparing for the Joint Implementation Coordination Meeting (JICM) and the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) meetings will be held continuously with the Government’s representatives group which includes the Government, Hluttaw and the Tatmadaw.
During the last Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong third Meeting held two years ago, there were 7 hundred representatives. This included 29 special invitees, 204 researchers, 27 agents and 152 supporters. There were a total of 1112 people who attended the 6 days conference.
51 agreements came out of the last Union Conference.
