Leaders of Ethnic Armed Organizations arrive in Nay Pyi Taw to participate in peace talks

AS Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing called for peace talks with ethnic armed organizations-EAOs to restore perpetual peace in the country and make an end to the armed conflicts, a peace delegation led by Chairman Khun Thurein of the Pa-O National Liberation Organization-PNLO from Taunggyi of Shan State, Chairman Kyar Solomon of the Lahu Democratic Union-LDU from Tachilek of Shan State and Vice Chair Saw Mra Razar Lin of the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) from Sittway of Rakhine State arrived in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday afternoon.
On the arriving of the PNLO peace delegation at Horizon Lake Resort in Nay Pyi Taw, the LDU and ALP peace delegations at Nay Pyi Taw Airport, they were welcomed by members and officials of the National Solidarity and Peacemaking Negotiation Committee, officials from Nay Pyi Taw Council and ministries and ethnic people from the Department of Fine Arts of Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture and locals who wants peace holding miniature State flags and placards bearing, “Perpetual peace is the real aspiration of the people”, “Achieving peace is the true desire of all citizens”, “Let’s hold talks for peace in the Union”, “Only the ethnic nationalities are in unity, stability, peace and tranquillity will be achieved”.
The peace delegations from EAOs held the peace talks for the first time from May to August 2022. Strengthening of multiparty democratic system, building the Union based on democracy and federalism and further striving for ensuring peace and development of the Union were agreed in the talks. It was reported that the peace delegations are allowed to openly discuss their political anticipations and future talks in the second time talk. Moreover, the ethnic armed organizations which do not join the peace talks yet are also invited to the talks without advance restrictions in any situations.—MNA