Ending armed conflict key to advancing Kachin State’s development

KACHIN State is blessed with favourable climatic and geographical conditions, supporting the development of agriculture and livestock activities. Efforts must be exerted to boost agricultural products and manufacture value-added fin­ished products based on agricultural produce through industrial technologies for the development of the state.

It is necessary to produce value-added products based on the domestic raw materials in order to fulfil the needs of the region and sell them locally and internationally. As such, ethnic people residing in the state need to strive to initiate these businesses so as to improve the socioeconomic life of the people.

In Kachin State, the flow of illegal commodities, cross-border crimes and drug trafficking in border areas adjacent to other countries are activities against the law, tarnishing the image of the state and defaming its integrity. Hence, departmen­tal officials, ethnic leaders and the entire people should combat these illegal activities to ensure the enforcement of the law.

The country must be peaceful and stable, and needs to be free from armed conflicts and terrorist acts for national development. Only when the country is peaceful and stable will it march forward to carry out development initiatives. As such, armed groups and terrorist groups need to con­sider that now is the time to emphasize the efforts to cease fighting and violent acts as part of serving the interests of Kachin State and its residents.

All stakeholders and different groups have to re­solve the political problems stably and politically. They need to consider and review that attacks and impossible remands of each ethnic region with arms which do not benefit the country are terrorist activities against the democratic way, and these cause trouble to themselves. Now is the time for all to strive for ending the armed conflicts in relevant regions as well as ensuring tranquillity, stability and a durable peace.

In order to develop Kachin State and improve the socioec­onomic life of the ethnic people, everyone needs to participate in exercising the multiparty democratic system. Moreover, it is necessary to have the number of ethnic Hluttaw representatives on the political platform in order to hold discussions under the law for the sake of strengthening the multiparty democratic system and the interests of the region and ethnic. So, the entire ethnic people should join hands with the government, Tatmadaw and public service personnel to build a Union based on democracy and a federal system in accord with the aspiration of the ethnic people. Consequently, residents of Kachin State can preserve the traditions and natural resources of Kachin State forever.