An overview of the second meeting of the Union Peace Conference (Photo EPA/VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - The third meeting of the Union PeaceConference or the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference, will be held in thelast week of January 2018, according to a decision of the Joint ImplementationCoordination Meeting (JICM).
The 6th JICM on Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) was chaired byState Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on November 27 with the attendance of DeputyCommander-in-Chief of the Defense Services and Commander-in-Chief of the ArmyVice Sen-Gen Soe Win.
The meeting also decided to hold a national level political dialoguewith the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS)/Shan State Army-South(SSA-S), one of the eight signatories to the NCA, in Langkho town, Shan statenext January.
The meeting agreed to continue efforts for Arakan Liberation Party(ALP), another signatory to NCA, to conduct national level discussions, as wellas to hold the 7th JICM meeting on the last week of next February.
In October 2015, Myanmar's previous government signed the NCA with eightarmed groups out of 15.
The incumbent government has held the 21st Century Panglong PeaceConference twice in August 2016 and May 2017 respectively. The second meetingwas able to incorporate a total of 37 adopted principles into a union agreementin the country's peace process, the first time in Myanmar's history.
The 37 adopted principles were signed by representatives ofparticipating groups of the government, parliament, military, signatory armedgroups to the NCA and political parties as Part One of the Union Accord.
The third meeting of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference isexpected to discuss unfinished fundamental principles as well as new principleson federalism.-VNA
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