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Peace Initiation: State Counsellor To Discuss With JMC-U

State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will discuss peace initiation with the Union-level Ceasefire Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) today, global new light of Myanmar report citing Lt-Gen Ya Pyayt at a meeting held by JMC yesterday. The meeting will continue today for the second day with State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who will lead the new government’s peace initiative, in attendance to discuss guidelines and procedures relating to the Union-level ceasefire agreement. This is the fifth meeting but the first held during the period of the incumbent government. The two-day meeting is being held at Horison Lake View Hotel in Nay Pyi Taw Council Area. “The political issues are required to be solved only through use of political means. As these political issues have been solved through use of arm line policy,  the country has been suffering for decades with officers and other ranks from both sides having  sacrificed their lives and limbs,” remarked General Saw Issac Po from Karen National Union (KNU) in his capacity as the vice chairman-1 of JMC-U meeting media during an interval. The meeting focused upon the formation of Mon State and Kayin State-level JMCs. The meeting elected U Pyayt Son as alternate vice chairman of the committee according to the rules and regulations of the committee. The Union-level JMC was formed with eight ethnic armed groups which have signed Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement with the Tatmadaw. There have been three occurrences of armed skirmishes between the eight ethnic armed organizations and Tatmadaw since the signing of the NCA, said Lt- Gen Ya Pyayt. The JMC was first formed on 18 November, 2015 with 10 representatives from the government side, another 10 representatives from eight ethnic armed organizations and six civilian  representatives nominated by the both sides. The 26-member committee is chaired by Lt-Gen Ya Pyayt with Saw Issac Po and U Pyisone as vice chairman-1 and-2 respectively. 

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