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PEACE Info (May 26, 2017) PEACE Info (May 26, 2017) Union Peace Conference achieves agreement on the majority of points in five sectors United military discussed Heated debate on ‘secession’ on second day of Panglong SNLD urges everyone to stick to the letter of the Panglong Agreement Mon party finds ethnic voices limited at Union Peace Conference MNP secretary says minority voices are missing from peace talks without UNFC Security and Political Sector Discussions in Deadlock at Peace Conference: Delegates Myanmar’s national reconciliation takes a step forward Govt peace commission meets Wa-led committee in Nay Pyi Taw Wa-led northern groups to meet with State Counsellor today Northeastern Alliance Optimistic About Future Peace Talks With Govt Who Are The Wa? TNLA Denies Sending Extortion Letters Containing Bullets ‘Ready to talk,’ TNLA says of ending conflict with RCSS Chin refugees in Mizoram repatriated Local CSOs pressure govt to cooperate on UN fact-finding mission တပ္မေတာ္တစ္ခုတည္း ထားရိွေရးမူ ထြက္ရွိေရး တပ္မေတာ္ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားအဖြဲ႔မ်ား အထူးတလည္ ေဆြးေႏြးေန ၂၁ ရာစုပင္လုံ ဒုတိယအစည္းအေ၀း၏ ႏုိင္ငံေရးက႑တြင္ ေဆြးေႏြးေနေသာ ျပည္ေထာင္စုမွ ခြဲမထြက္ရဆုိသည့္ အခ်က္သည္ တုိင္းရင္းသားမ်ားအတြက္ ပုိမုိစုိးရိမ္စိတ္ ျဖစ္လာႏုိင္သည္ဟု တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္အဖြဲ႕ႏွင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီအခ်ဳိ႕ အၾကံျပဳ ခြဲမထြက္ရ စာသား ေဆြးေႏြးမွု အႀကိတ္အနယ္ ဆက္ရွိခဲ့ ခဲြထြက္ေရးမူနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ႏိုင္ဟံသာေျပာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအရ ခိုင္မာမႈ ရွိမွသာ တပ္စခန္းမ်ား ျပန္လည္႐ုပ္သိမ္းလိမ့္မည္ ဖယ္ဒရယ္ တပ္မေတာ္မူဝါဒထြက္ရွိေရး လုံျခဳံေရး က႑တြင္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႕မ်ားမွ အႀကိတ္အနယ္ေဆြးေႏြး လုံျခဳံေရးက႑တြင္ တပ္မေတာ္တစ္ခုတည္းထားရွိေရးအတြက္ သေဘာထား စုစည္းခ်က္ ၃ ခ်က္ ေဆြးေႏြး အန္စီေအလမ္းေၾကာင္း ဆက္သြားပါက ခြဲျခားကန္႔သတ္မႈမ်ား မျပဳလုပ္ရန္လို ေျမာက္ပုိင္းမဟာမိတ္အဖဲြ႔ေတြနဲ႔ ေဒၚစု ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ေျမာက္ပိုင္း အဖြဲ႕ေတြ ေတြ႕ဆုံ တ႐ုတ္၏ ဖိအားေပးမႈေၾကာင့္ NCA ျပင္ဆင္ရန္ အစိုးရႏွင့္တပ္မေတာ္ထံေတာင္းဆုိခဲ့ဟု UWSA ဆုိ ရပ္တည္ခ်က္မတူေပမယ့္ ညွိယူရင္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းလာမွာ ယံုၾကည္တယ္လို႔ UWSA ေျပာ “အရင္အန္စီေအနဲ႔ေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ လက္မွတ္ထိုးမွာမဟုတ္ဘူး” – ဦးေက်ာက္ေကာ္အန္း အန္စီေအကိစၥ ႏွစ္ဖက္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ေျပလည္ေအာင္ ညိႇႏိႈင္းရန္ ‘ဝ’ ေခါင္းေဆာင္တိုက္တြန္း ပင္လံု ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးညီလာခံအေပၚ ကန္ပညာရွင္အေကာင္းျမင္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္ တ႐ုတ္၏ ၾကားဝင္ေစ့စပ္မႈကို မ်ားစြာေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားေၾကာင္း TNLA ဒုဥကၠ႒ေျပာၾကား ဖြဲ႕စည္းပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒျပင္ဆင္ေရး ႏုိင္ငံေရးေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမွတစ္ဆင့္ ေဆာင္ရြက္၍ရေၾကာင္း ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းေျပာ Page 1 of 54 ေကာ့ကရိတ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္း အစိုးရစစ္တပ္ လႈပ္ရွားမႈရွိလာဟု နယ္ခံ ေကအဲန္ယူေျပာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးညီလာခံက်င္းပေနစဥ္ ကိုးကန္႔ေဒသတြင္ တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္ပြား (႐ုပ္သံ) ရွမ္းတပ္ႏွင့္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ားရပ္တန္႔ေရး ေဆြးေႏြးရန္အသင့္ရွိဟု တအာင္းတပ္ေျပာ ရွမ္းေျမာက္ေဒသမွာ လက္နက္ကုိင္ အဖ်က္လုပ္ငန္း လုပ္ေဆာင္မႈ သတင္းထြက္ေပၚ ျမန္မာဒုကၡသည္ ၃၀၀ ေက်ာ္ အိႏၵိယျပန္ပို႔ မီဇိုရမ္ေရာက္ ျမန္မာဒုကၡသည္ ၃၃၈ ဦးကို အိႏၵိယတာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြ ေနရပ္ျပန္ပို႔ေပး ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 2 of 54 Union Peace Conference achieves agreement on the majority of points in five sectors By Mizzima | On Friday, 26 May 2017 Participants of the peace conference meet on the third day of the Land and Environment session of the Union Peace Conference ‐ 21st century Panglong in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 26 May 2017. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA The Union Peace Conference— 21st Century Panglong (second session) discussed position papers in five sectors and reached agreement for the majority of the points in the five sectors, state media reported on 26 May. Agreed upon were 41 points of facts related to the political, economic, social, land and environment sectors, reached by representatives of the government, Hluttaw, the Tatmadaw, ethnic armed organisations and political parties, according to the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) Secretariat. Positive results also came out from the remaining four sectors, said the representatives at the press conference.The results will be submitted to the final‐day meeting of the Union Peace Conference‐21st Century Panglong (second session) on 28th May, the report said. http://www.mizzima.com/news‐domestic/union‐peace‐conference‐achieves‐agreement‐ majority‐points‐five‐sectors ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ United military discussed Submitted by Eleven on Fri, 05/26/2017 | Writer: EMG The organisers holding a press conference on May 25. (Photo‐EMG) The representatives to the 21st‐century Panglong peace conference on May 25 discussed adopting a united union armed force, organisers told the press at a briefing. Myo Win, secretary of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee, said: “At the working committees’ talks, we’ve agreed an idea of having only one armed force in the future. We agreed to further discuss about it. At the instruction of the joint committee, today under the security agenda we talked about a single armed force for the future union.” Page 3 of 54 The joint committee proposed 41 policy recommendations to the peace conference. Issues about sovereignty, the exercise of power, equality, self‐ determination, federalism and multi‐party system were discussed under the political agenda. Among the areas discussed were eight topics under the economy, four about resettlement and development and six about land and environment. Politics, economy, social affairs, land and environmental conservation were discussed at the national‐level forums. Religious affairs under the social‐affair agenda and the security agenda are reserved for the union‐level peace conference. Translated by Nay Thiha http://www.elevenmyanmar.com/politics/9656 ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Heated debate on ‘secession’ on second day of Panglong By Lun Min Mang and Ei Ei Toe Lwin | Friday, 26 May 2017 A Debate about the appropriateness of including the phrase “non‐secession from the union” as part of the basic principle of a peace agreement dominated the second day of the 21st‐century Panglong, said representatives from the forum. On the second day of the second round of the 21st‐Century Panglong conference held yesterday in Nay Pyi Taw, participants of nearly 700 were divided into five sectors – politics, security, economy, social and land and environment, where they discussed the 41 points prepared in advance by the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) before the conference. The UPDJC is a tripartite committee consisting of the government (including the Tatmadaw), eight signatory armed ethnic groups and political parties’ representatives authorised to draft political dialogue frameworks and hold political dialogues at the national and union level. The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), after a morning tea‐break yesterday released a statement, expressed their disappointment with the usage of the phrase “non‐ secession”. “In the pursuit of [the three national causes] reconciliation among ethnic people, non‐ disintegration of the union and perpetuation of the sovereignty, the sentence ‘Any unit of the Union must never secede from the Union’ is not appropriate to put as one of the basic principles,” said the SNLD statement. The party said using the sentence as part of the basic principle of a peace agreement showed that the parties do not trust each other. Page 4 of 54 “In building union, instead of having worries, doubts and fear as the basis of the process, the SNLD believe that having mutual understanding, respect and trust would be constructive for the process,” said the ethnic Shan party. It also said that including the sentence as one of the basic principles of a future federal union would benefit some organizations, but it would not be good for ‘reconciliation among ethnic people’ as a whole. But Colonel Zaw Min Tun, an army representative who exchanged his points of view at the political debate forum, told reporters during the afternoon tea‐break that the controversial phrase was the main division between the ethnic armed organizations (EAOs), signatory groups and the Tatmadaw. “The EAOs side said putting the phrase ‘must not secede’ is based on fear, which can create mistrust among each other. And they suggested that the phrase should be repaired. But, for us, [the Tatmadaw] we want to include this phrase because it is linked to historical experiences,” he said. He also said the two sides are currently trying to compromise an acceptable ground concerning the phrase. “If the phrase ‘must not secede’ is too hard to accept for them, there are suggestions that this should be used alternatively as ‘all ethnic people agree to live harmoniously in the union without having divisions’. We are going to work it out,” said he. Salai Lian Hmung, an official representing the sectoral discussion for politics, who appeared at a press conference after the sessions were finished, said the issue remains under discussion. “This is still under discussion. But some phrases, for instance [a state or a region] 'must not secede from the union' in the chairperson of the sector were requested to repair,” he said. “For strengthening the union, or of all the units of the union, instead of saying ‘must not secede from the union’, which is quite negative in a sense, some participants have argued that positive‐sensed words like ‘cooperation’ should be used in this case,” he said. But Salai Lian Hmung said the participants did not agree to the use of the term 'external self‐ determination' to be included in the agreement, as it means secession from the union. The secretariat of Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee discussed the matter yesterday evening and would bring back proposals concerning the usage of the terms to the dialogue table for today’s discussion. Of the 21 titles under the topics of politics, he said most of the proposals were easily agreed by participants, while as few as five titles were extensively discussed.
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