Keep promise and follow disciplines to restore perpetual peace
January 03, 2023
The Office of the
Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services recently issued a declaration, saying
that with the objective of continuing to implement the peace process in a
practical manner and achieving the perpetual peace that the entire people
aspire to, the military operations will remain to be suspended for one more
year from 1 January to 31 December 2023 except for the time when the national
security and the State’s administrative machinery are disturbed as well as
matters concerning national defence and administration are adversely affected.
In ensuring the peace and prosperity of the Union which is the aspiration of
the entire people and in the effectuation of the socioeconomic development as
well as in attempting to reach the goal of perpetual peace, the discussion and
negotiation approach shall be employed to conform to the democratic practices.
The State Administration Council has formulated the Five-Point Roadmap for
strengthening a genuine, discipline-flourishing multiparty democratic system
and building up a Union based on democracy and federalism. The peace process is
being constantly undertaken to be able to implement the fourth point of the
roadmap, “the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) will be abided by as much as
possible to ensure attainment of enduring peace across the nation”.
In accord with the objective of attainment of
perpetual peace across the nation, enhancing the peace process and more
effectively carrying out the nation’s Covid-19 prevention, control, and
treatment, Tatmadaw has over four years issued 21 ceasefire statements between
21 December 2018 and 31 December 2022.
Up to now, Tatmadaw has been able to meet two
times with the seven NCA signatory ethnic armed organizations namely DKBA,
KNU-KNLA/PC, PNLO, NMSP, ALP, RCSS(SSA) and LDU, and three NCA non-signatory
UWSA, NDAA, and SSPP (SSA,), totalling ten.
During the peace talks, matters relating to the
pursuit of a genuine multiparty democratic system, the building up of the Union
based on democracy and federalism, the demands made by the ethnic armed
organizations, and things that are essential to respective regions and the
country and feasible to implement were discussed frankly for the benefit of the
Union with the positive results achieved. The peace process is ongoing to
effectuate the path to peace based on the 2008 Constitution and the NCA.
All stakeholders are responsible for restoring
peace through talks. Both sides in the talks need to take care of keeping
promises for their future plans and following prescribed disciplines. If so, it
is sure that both sides of peace talks would restore perpetual peace for the
whole nation.
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