CNI News
16 February 2024
In collaboration with the forces of the Spring Revolution, it would fight against the Tatmadaw, the breakaway New Mon State Party stated on 14th February 2024.
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) signed the bilateral ceasefire agreements with the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) in 1995 and then with the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and then with the government led by U Thein Sein at the state and union levels.
After that, the NMSP signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement(NCA) on 13 February 2018.
The NMSP, according to the NCA, made constant efforts to find a political answer to political problems and discussed with the State Administration Council three times.
Although the NMSP presented and discussed the current political problem could be solved by all inclusive political dialogues and the principles of federalism that their party wanted, the results expected did not come out at all, the breakaway NMSP stated.
While seeing the statement by the breakaway NMSP
"The breakaway NMSP believes that ending the military dictatorship or any dictatorship is the only way for the emergence of a federal union in which there are national equal rights and self-determination that we desire and for the protection of the people. Although the belief was thoroughly discussed at the 11th party conference, the party made a decision to communicate with military council, standing on the Bilateral Ceasefire Agreement that was signed in 2012, which was not accepted at all by the breakaway NMSP," the breakaway NMSP stated.
After that, general secretary of the New Mon State Party Naing Zeya, Deputy Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Salun Htaw, some party leaders, commanders, majors, lieutenants, corporals and privates broke away under the name of the New Mon State Party (Anti-dictatorship).
So, chairman of the NMSP Naing Han Thar, vice chairman Naing Aung Min, chief of staff, secretary (1) Naing Hla Win will continue the NMSP and the party including six other NCA signatories discussed the peace processes with Lt-Gen Tun Tun Naung, chairman of the National Solidarity and Peacemaking Negotiation Committee (NSPNC) of the SAC in Naypyidaw on 13th February 2024.
