CHAIRMAN of the State Administration Council Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior Gen­eral Min Aung Hlaing received a peace delegation led by Chair­man Saw Htaw Lay of the Karen National Liberation Army (Peace Council) KNU/KNLA (PC) at the parlour of Bayintnaung Villa in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning to talk about peace issues.

Also present at the talks was Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Commander-in-Chief (Army) Vice-Senior General Soe Win, Council members General Mya Tun Oo, Lt-Gen Moe My­int Tun and Lt-Gen Yar Pyae. The Chairman of Karen Na­tional Liberation Army (Peace Council) KNU/KNLA (PC) was accompanied by Vice-Chair Naw Kapaw Htoo and Central Exec­utive Committee Member Saw Maung Maung.

At the talks, the Senior Gen­eral explained it is necessary to focus on the interests of the Union as regions and states are inhabited not only by a single ethnicity but by all ethnicities as a Union. He also discussed the need to consider the devel­opment of relevant ethnics, re­gions and states only when the country restores peace can the state-building and nation-build­ing tasks be speeded up, and implementation of the tasks for uplifting the education stand­ards across the nation including ethnic regions as it is neces­sary to emerge the well-versed human resources in order to exercise democracy, the reali­zation of multiparty democracy in conformity with the people’s desire, and building the Union based on democracy and fed­eralism.

The Chairman of Karen Na­tional Liberation Army (Peace Council) KNU/KNLA (PC) and the party discussed the same attitudes on exercising the multiparty democratic system, and building the Union based on democracy and federalism and reported on regional devel­opment measures. Then, they frankly exchanged views of the same attitudes on peace issues and regional development tasks.

After the talks, the Senior General presented gifts to the Chairman of Karen National Liberation Army (Peace Coun­cil) KNU/KNLA (PC) and the party and posed for documen­tary photos.

The Chairman of Karen Na­tional Liberation Army (Peace Council) KNU/KNLA (PC)and party will hold peace talks with the Peace Talks Team and the National Solidarity and Peace­making Negotiation Committee formed with members of the State Administration Council.

MNA