Statement by the AA (Arakan Army), PSLF (Palaung State Liberation Front), and MNDAA (Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army) | August 5, 2015

The Ethnic Armed Organizations’ (EAOs) Senior Delegation (SD) and the Union Peace-making Work Committee (UPWC) begins the 9th Meeting this week to continue negotiation for a nationwide ceasefire. This meeting is important for ending the nearly 70-year civil war in Myanmar.

The Government gives the reason that it cannot include some EAOs in the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) that those EAOs have not made bilateral ceasefire agreements with the Government, while the SD calls for an all-inclusive NCA in which all EAOs sign NCA together.

For this reason, we three EAOs, the Arakan Army (AA), Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), and Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF/TNLA), offer to make a ceasefire together with the Myanmar Government in order to achieve a genuine peace in Myanmar, enable the NCA to be signed as early as possible, and to begin political dialogue as early as possible.

Contacts:
Arakan Army: (86) 180 8816 4061
Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army: (86) 153 9383 7317
Palaung State Liberation Front: (86) 183 1346 8730

Download the statement (PDF) in English | in Burmese

 

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