CNI News

31 January 2024

It would collaborate with friend groups that oppose territorial expansionism and narrow-minded patriotism, the Shan State Progress Party (SSPP/SSA) stated. The SSPP/SSAA held its Annual Plenary Meeting for 2023 of the Central Committee from 20th to 29th January 2024 and released the statement.

The SSPP/SSA opposed dictatorship, chauvinism and expansionism and only when a federal democratic union based on equal rights and self-determinism could be built, would a developed union that could keep abreast with the world be built. Moreover, it would match together with its friends, the SSPP stated on 29th January.

The SSPP has a territorial dispute with the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and there is tension between the two sides. 

While seeing the statement released by the SSPP

The TNLA has captured the Tatmadaw's military camps in Namkham Township and made an effort to control the township. However, Namkham Township has been a territory that the SSPP has controlled since before.

There are disputes related to military and administrative territory within Namkham Township between the two sides.

The SSPP would make efforts to protect and maintain regional stability and would carry out for the regional development tasks such as education, agriculture, health, irrigation, road and bridge construction and it would help local people for the improvement of life and food security as able as it could, it stated on 29th January 2024.