The Mon Unity Party (MUP) has accepted an offer to join the “State Administrative Council (SAC)”, a creation of the current government in the wake of the military coup.
According to Dr. Banya Aung Moe, a member of the MUP’s Central Executive Committee, the party has chosen a path of dialogue and negotiation rather than a bloody path in its struggle for ethnic rights.
Dr. Banya Aung Moe said “No one accepts the military dictatorship, but we, the politicians, because it is our party’s political policy, I think we need to find a political solution at the political table for the federal union that the ethnic nationalities want. I think we can understand that the party made this decision by reviewing the attitude of the previous NLD government towards the Mon people.”
He also confirmed to the Mon News Agency that the MUP had nominated him to join the State Administrative Council.
Dr. Banya Aung Moe suggested that the military is now offering what the NLD had not.
“No such organization had [extended] such an offer. This issue has been considered from all angles and accepted. As the party has promised our people, we have accepted this place for the development of federal democracy, literature, culture and regional development,” said Dr. Banya Aung Moe.
The current State Administrative Council includes the USDP, National Democratic Force Party, New National Democratic Party, Karen People’s Party, and some Arakan National Party leaders are involved.
Neither the Mon Unity Party (MUP) or the New Mon State Party (NMSP) plan to issue a [individual] statement regarding this development.
