CNI News

4 December 2024

Revolutionary EAOs should sign a bilateral agreement with NCA signatories to make ethnic representatives show up on the political platform, chairperson of the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP), Daw Saw Mya Raza Lin told CNI News. 

The ALP is an EAO that signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) on 15th October 2015.

The government needed to think about how it would open the way in order to make ethnic representatives show up on the platform by finishing the talks that were not finished, said Daw Saw Mya Raza Lin.

" Revolutionary EAOs should sign a bilateral agreement firstly with NCA signatories in order to make ethnic representatives show up on the political platform. And the government needs to think about how it can open the way for the ethnic representatives to make them reach on the political platform after finishing the talks that are not finished. Myanmar is a country where a civil war is breaking out. So, firstly it's necessary to cease the war. On the other hand, it's very important to talk with each NCA signatory trying to solve the political problem by political means." she said.

While seeing leaders and representatives from various ethnic organizations

Ethnic representatives needed participating in the political platform more so that they could demand for the sake of their regions and their races in accordance with the law, said chairman of the SAC on 19th November. 

The SAC was carrying out to implement the proportional representation system  in order that more representatives representing social classes could include in the Hluttaws of Regions and States, he added.

EAOs and political parties had had intension since before to cooperate in the political dialogues; however, those situabilateraltions had disappeared for many reasons and armed conflicts appeared, spokesperson of the 7 EAO Alliance, Col. Saw Kyaw Nyunt told CNI News.

" We, national races, as EAOs or political parties, we had intended to cooperate in holding political dialogues since before. But these situations disappeared for many reasons and armed conflicts appeared. Political dialogues have almost suspended. As the SAC that has taken the State responsibilities, if it should be generous and tolerate to make the situations leading the future peace, all inclusive dialogue will emerge although there are difficulties, I believe." he said.

While leaders of EAOs and Sr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing

Without solving political problems with political means, if they were solved with weapons, it would produce the condition that was not peaceful; the current conflicts could be solved with dialogue after reducing the conflicts, said chairman of the SAC in his written speech on the National Day.

The NCA has signed by the RCSS, the LDU, the KNU/KNLA-PC, the DKBA, the PNLO, the KNU, the CNF and the ABSDF. 

However, the KIA, the AA, the TNLA, the MNDAA, the KNPP, that have not signed the NCA as well as the KNU, the CNF and the ABSDF are waging battles against the Myanmar Tatmadaw while the NDAA, the UWSA and the SSPP are staying neutral.