Daw Aung Suu Kyi will not be attending a meeting with the government’s Union Peace Working Committee (UPWC). The NLD chairperson can’t make it due to her first ever trip the Czech Republic, according to Pa Doh Mahn Mahn, secretary of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC).
The UNFC is made up of 11 ethnic armed groups. The Sept. 8 meeting in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai is the second time representatives have met with the UPWC for peace discussions. The first meeting took place in February.
During the upcoming meeting a nationwide ceasefire will be discussed, according to party members. Drafting of a new constitution will also proposed by the UNFC. The ethnic alliance stands resolutely behind its outline of demands during previous talks, according to Mahn Mahn.
“As discussed before with the government’s technical group, the UNFC will continue to promote the agenda of its six-point road map for peace,” he said.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was invited to participate as a third-party observer along with the Nationalities Brotherhood Federation (NBF), the United Nationalities Alliance (UNA), the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) and the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA).
So far the UNA is the only group to confirm attendance.
