CNI News

4 September 2023

The Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement is a historic agreement which was approved by the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and it will never be void, said Sr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, chairman of the State Administration Council.

He said as stated above at the meeting (3/2023) of the SAC on 1st September, 2023.

" The government, the Hluttaw, the Tatmadaw and ethnic armed organizations magnificently signed the NCA before the diplomats from China, India, Japan, Thailand, and local witnesses on 15th October, 2015 and it is a historic agreement that was approved by the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. It will never be void and I signed it from the government side as the Commander in Chief of Defense Services" said Sr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing.

A senior official of an ethnic armed organization talked about the NCA in an undocumented manner, meaninglessly and recklessly, but the Tatmadaw would go on performing the peace processes, firmly standing on the NCA, he added. 

Sr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing at a meeting of the SAC

Moreover, the NCA's 8th anniversary ceremony that will fall on 15th October, 2023 will be held practically, meaningfully and seriously, said chairman of the SAC.

Because the NCA had been void, they didn't have to follow it anymore, said Pado Sawta Do Hmu, general secretary of the Karen National Union (KNU) at a news conference on 10th August, 2023.

The signing ceremony of the NCA

The NCA was signed by the KNU, the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), KNU/KNLA Peace Council, the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA), the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP), the All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF), the Chin National Front (CNF) and the Pa-O National Liberation Organization (PNLO) on 15th October, 2023.

After that, the New Mon State Party and the Lahu Democratic Union (LDU) signed the NCA on 13th February, 2018. The NCA was signed before the diplomats from China, India, Japan, UN, and local witnesses and it was approved by the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.