Ethnic Conference Builds Unity Among Armed Organisation
Ethnic Conference Builds Unity Among Armed Organisation
Karen News, 27 Jan 2014
URL: http://karennews.org/2014/01/ethnic-conference-builds-unity-among-armed-organisation.html/
In a show of unity and strength representatives from 17 armed resistance groups met in Karen State to discuss a nationwide ceasefire agreement for Burma.
The ethnic armed groups released a statement claiming the conference that ran over five days from 20 to 25 January and held at Law Khee Lar, Karen State was a success. The ethnic armed group under its working title, the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT), said in its statement that the “outstanding achievement of [the] Law Khee Lar Conference is the competency to adopt a Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, unanimously.”
The statement confirmed that the NCCT team had the support of the 17 ethnic armed resistance organization and “this Conference further gave mandate to the NCCT to undertake further coordination in respect of the Agreement.”
The NCCT statement said that the Law Khee Lar Conference, “in addition to consolidating unity of all the ethnic nationalities, serves as an arena for preparing them, for different stages of political dialogues and negotiations that will come after achievement of nationwide ceasefire.”
The NCCT said in its statement that ethnic armed resistance organizations are determined to “struggle on until their political goal of establishment of a “Genuine Federal Union” is achieved.”
NCCT said that the ethnic armed resistance organizations are building its unity “in order to be able to cooperate and participate, with correct intention, in the processes of cessation of the civil war, building internal peace and rehabilitation of the country.”
The NCCT called for a consolidation of unity between ethnic people and its statement was released to urge the building of “ethnic unity of the entire people consisting of all the nationalities, including organizations of the ruling government, from the ethnic unity that has been successfully achieved.”
The ethnic armed groups released a statement claiming the conference that ran over five days from 20 to 25 January and held at Law Khee Lar, Karen State was a success. The ethnic armed group under its working title, the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT), said in its statement that the “outstanding achievement of [the] Law Khee Lar Conference is the competency to adopt a Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, unanimously.”
The statement confirmed that the NCCT team had the support of the 17 ethnic armed resistance organization and “this Conference further gave mandate to the NCCT to undertake further coordination in respect of the Agreement.”
The NCCT statement said that the Law Khee Lar Conference, “in addition to consolidating unity of all the ethnic nationalities, serves as an arena for preparing them, for different stages of political dialogues and negotiations that will come after achievement of nationwide ceasefire.”
The NCCT said in its statement that ethnic armed resistance organizations are determined to “struggle on until their political goal of establishment of a “Genuine Federal Union” is achieved.”
NCCT said that the ethnic armed resistance organizations are building its unity “in order to be able to cooperate and participate, with correct intention, in the processes of cessation of the civil war, building internal peace and rehabilitation of the country.”
The NCCT called for a consolidation of unity between ethnic people and its statement was released to urge the building of “ethnic unity of the entire people consisting of all the nationalities, including organizations of the ruling government, from the ethnic unity that has been successfully achieved.”