The KySDP negotiating committee spokesman Theh Reh told Mizzima that a meeting between the Kayah State Democratic Party (KySDP) and the National League for Democracy (NLD), had failed due to a disagreement over the venue.
The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) is still in internal talks and has not yet made a decision whether to meet with the ruling National League for Democracy’s special envoys for ethnic affairs, said SNLD General Secretary Sai Leik.
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Myanmar’s ruling party will begin meetings with various ethnic political parties on this week, making good on its stated plan to include ethnic minorities in its efforts to build a democratic federal union after winning national elections in November, party officials said Tuesday.
Two days after the Nov. 8 election victory with a new five-year mandate, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) issued statements calling on 48 ethnic political parties to join renewed talks about a federal union, held up as a way to end 70 years of ethnic wars.
Myanmar, a country of 54 million people the size of Texas or France, recognizes 135 official ethic groups, with majority Bamars (Burmese) accounting for about 68 percent of the population, far exceeding the next largest group, the Shan, which account for nine percent of the population.