Photo taken on Aug. 10, 2017 shows the scene of a meeting between the Peace Commission and the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) in Yangon, Myanmar on Aug. 10, 2017. The Peace Commission Thursday held the 4th formal meeting with the UNFC, represented by the Delegation of Political Negotiation (DPN) at the National Reconciliation and Peace Center (NRPC) here. (Xinhua/U Aung)
YANGON, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has expressed strong belief that the non-signatory armed groups to the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord (NCA) would sign the peace pact during the upcoming third 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference, according to Chairman of the Peace Commission Tin Myo Win Thursday.
The peace commission Thursday held the 4th formal meeting with the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), represented by the Delegation of Political Negotiation (DPN) at the National Reconciliation and Peace Center (NRPC) here.
Sending a message to the meeting, Suu Kyi believed that the coalition force leaders can make a final step towards peace, Tin Myo Win said, adding that the meeting would finalize the discussions on all remaining points.
DPN leader Khu Oo Reh said that prior agreements should be reached for confidence building.
The second meeting of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference ended in Nay Pyi Taw on May 29, giving birth to some union accords for peace for the first time in Myanmar's history.
A total of 37 adopted principles, based on the NCA, were incorporated into a union agreement and signed by representatives of participating groups of the government, parliament, military, signatory armed groups to the NCA and political parties.
After the end of the first meeting of the 21st Century Panglong Conference, a nation-level political dialogue took place in five states and regions as well as Nay Pyi Taw Union Territory in accordance with the NCA.
The document endorsed in the second meeting of the conference represented the first union accord document of the third phase of the above peace path, heralding that more documents of agreement will follow as a final version of the Union Accord.
