Secession And Federal Army Crucial For Myanmar's Peace
The second session of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference (May 24-May 29, 2017) brought together some 1,400 representatives from the government (executive branch), the Parliament, the military, invited political parties, ethnic armed organizations and civil society groups.
In total, 41 points (political, economic, social, security, and land and environment) were discussed and of these, agreement was reached upon on 37 points with the ultimate goal of reaching a Union Peace Accord, which is expected to serve as the foundation for durable peace in a federal Myanmar.
The points that were agreed upon included a Union based on democracy and federalism, with the right to self-determination; no ethnic races to be given special privileges; and states and regions to write their own constitutions and laws in accordance with the 2008 constitution.
The 37 principles, which were proposed by the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC), were the results of state and regional level political dialogues, which include 12 with the political sector, 11 with the economic sector, four with the social sector and 10 with the land and environment sector.
In her closing remarks of the conference, Myanmar State Counsellor and Chairperson of the UPDJC Daw Aung San SuuKyi, said, “The agreements that we have been able to sign today mark a significant step on our path toward peace, national reconciliation, and the emergence of a democratic federal Union.”
Agreements are yet to be reached on key principles of federalism such as equality, self-determination and federalism, which have been kept for further deliberation and discussion in the next round of the peace conference will tentatively take place after six months.
This story is from the July 2017 edition of Northeast Today.
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