We need to review the success, challenges and difficulties and crisis of the four-year old Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), said Colonel Sai Ngin, the team leader of Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement – Signatory, Ethnic Armed Organizations, the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (NCA-S EAO UPDJC). 

The NCA-S EAO UPDJC held its meeting at Green Hill Hotel in Yangon on October 23. 

In his opening speech, Colonel Sai Nging said: “We need to conduct thorough reviews of the current stalled peace process and to seek ways to end the ongoing fights.”

He also thanked officials for the holding of the 28th NCA-S EAO UPDJC meeting at a time when the country’s military, peace, economy and social conditions are in trouble. 

The UPDJC is a major mechanism in the implementation process under the NCA. The success of peace process largely relies on accountability, responsibility, supervision, uprightness and undertaking.

The budget proposals for the peace process programs and important matters in the years  to come, are to be discussed and decided at this meeting, he continued. 

We need to lay down the future tasks taking account of political and peace landscapes beyond the 4th anniversary of NCA signing scheduled for October 28. 

He also called on those involved to join hands and cooperate in ensuring the smooth operation of stalled peace process, achieving eternal peace and building the federal union.