Armed ethnic groups will be seeking adjustments to their draft ceasefire agreement with the government's Union Peace-making Work Committee when peace talks resume in Yangon later this week, a member of the National Ceasefire Coordination Team told Mizzima on August 12.
The decision was revealed by NCCT member Colonel Khun Okker in the Kachin State border town of Laiza at the end of a meeting there of the armed ethnic groups that began on August 9.
“We have considered the document and made some revisions but we have drafted no additional clauses,” said Pahoh Kwe Htoo Win, a deputy leader of the NCCT.
Padoh Kwe Htoo Win also said there were some semantic disagreements over the term ‘federal’.
Another deputy leader of the NCCT, Major-General Gum Maw, said some terms in the draft agreement still needed to be clarified.
The two sides are due to resume negotiations at the Myanmar Peace Center in Yangon on August 15.
The draft agreement, the second since the peace talks began, was agreed at negotiations between the NCCT and the UPWC at the peace centre in May.
