September 27th, 2022
The Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) discussed nine points including the implementation of the Panglong Agreement, Principles and Pledges and the formation of Bamar State, in a talk with the military council on September 27th.
This statement came after the SSPP/SSA held the second round talk with the military council in Nay Pyi Taw on September 27th.
The nine points discussed by the SSPP are:
1. To implement the Panglong Agreement, Principles and Pledges,
2. To implement the agreements reached at the 1961 Interstates Conference,
3. To form Bamar State to implement national equality,
4. To build up the federal democratic union,
5. To simultaneously build design and essence in building up the federal union,
6. To stick to the facts such as the acceptance of democratic rights, the equality of basic human rights, self-determination, collective leadership, the principle of diversity principle and protection of minorities as a union core value.
The SSPP also discussed the fact that the charter of the federal democratic union shall be drafted in accordance with five-point guidelines.
The SSPP’s five-point guidelines are:
1. Sovereignty is derived from the public as the public in the states which are the members of the union and in these states are the owners of sovereignty.
2. The federal democratic union is formed with the Union member states which have equality and full rights to enact self-determination, and all Union member states are equal in terms of politics,
3. Union member states shall have the rights to draft and enact their relevant state charters.
4. To exercise power sharing, resource sharing, revenue sharing and federal fiscal systems and the law under which the upper level governmental bodies take responsibility for the only matters which go beyond the capacity of the government which has the closest relation with the public, in the case of power sharing,
5. To ensure all federal union security and defense forces under the control and administration of the democratically-elected civilian government and to exercise the policy based on human security.
The armed groups which have held the second round of so-called peace talks with the military council are: the NCA signatories and Non-NCA signatories.
Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement – Signatories, Ethnic Armed Organizations (NCA-S EAO are : the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP), the Pa-O National Liberation Organisation (PNLO), the Lahu Democratic Union (LDU), the KNU/KNLA/PC and the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA).
The Non-NCA Signatories are: the SSPP, the United Wa State Party (UWSP) and the National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA)-Mongla.
Sent by NMG