CNI News

19 March 2024

Their seven NCA signatories would start governing their controlled territories with their self-governing system of self-determination, said General Yawd Serk, chairman of the Restoration Council of Shan State. 

The seven NCA signatories were holding a meeting relating to peace processes in Chiangmai, Thailand.

General Yawd Serk said the above at the meeting that was held from 17th to 19th March, 2024.

"As our seven NCA signatories, we'll have to start administering the regions that we have seized control of with a self-governing system of self-determination. We'll have to carry out administration, security, economy, education, health, livelihood and other services for the people living in our regions. We'll have to build a federal democratic union step by step. On the other hand, the seven NCA signatories need to perform things that we all agree together and to do those we don't agree separately."said General Yawd Serk.

In the same way, ethnic nationalities would have a thought beyond federalism in 2025, said Lt-Gen Gunmaw, vice chairman of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) when he met with Sr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in 2018.

So, EAOs have gradually changed thinking from federal to confederation, pointed out a person who is taking part in the peace process.

The Arakan Army has proclaimed that it must take the status that is not lower than that of the United Wa State Army (UWSA). 

The meeting was attended by General Yawd Serk, chairman of the RCSS and Saw Mutu Say Phoe, former chairman of the Karen National Union (KNU).