6th Waning of Nayon 1383 ME

30 June 2021

1. The Tatmadaw formed the State Administration Council and adopted the five-point roadmap and nine objectives, striving for the development of all sectors such as political, economic and social affairs of the State with might and main in addition to a further suspension of military operations for effectively realizing the successful restoration of perpetual peace and beefing up the prevention, control and treatment of COVID-19.

2. As the outbreak of COVID-19 generates variant strains in a long time because of finding the variant COVID-19 in some neighbouring countries, the State Administration Council is carrying out continuous monitoring, control and inspection for the outbreak of COVID-19. The State Administration Council further suspended the military operations of the Tatmadaw from 1 to 31 July 2021 except the period of committing encroachment and attacks on security and administrative machinery of the government in addition to State defence and administrative measures to enable the ethnic armed organizations to continuously hold the dialogues until the perpetual peace could be restored successfully and to smoothly undertake the peace process.

3. As such, the organizations and persons involved in the peace process are urged to strive for achieving perpetual peace through negotiation during the period of further suspending the military operations of the Tatmadaw for ensuring the peace and tranquillity of the Union, improvement of socio-economic life and correct democratization that all the entire ethnic people aspire.

Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services