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China supports Myanmar's peace process from start to finish: negotiator

People's Daily Online

(Xinhua) 20:22, October 15, 2015

NAY PYI TAW, Oct. 15 -- China has supported Myanmar's peace process from the start to the finish and there remains much to be done in cooperation with China to realize peace in the entire country, a Myanmar government peace negotiator said Thursday.

U Aung Min, who is vice chairman of Myanmar government's Union Peace Making Work Committee (UPWC), told a joint press briefing after the formal signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Accord (NCA) between the government and eight ethnic armed groups that with the assistance and support of China, the government will continue to coordinate with remaining armed groups, which are yet to sign the NCA, to complete the process.

Also at the briefing, Sun Guoxiang, special envoy of China on Asian affairs, stressed that China always attached importance to Myanmar's peace process and had actively pushed forward the process.

Sun added that despite absence of some armed groups in the signing, it is a good result as they agreed to the contents included in the NCA.

'We always urged all armed groups to take part in the signing from the start to the finish. We are pusher and supporter but not decision-maker and cannot decide on their behalf. We would like to continue to work for Myanmar's peace process and give support.'

Thursday's signing of the NCA was witnessed by international observers from the United Nations, the European Union, China, India, Thailand and Japan.

Efforts for the formal NCA signing were made through more than one year's negotiation between the two sides until a draft of the NCA was preliminarly signed in late March.

The peace process began in November 2013 when the government's Union Peace Making Work Committee (UPWC) and ethnic armed groups' National Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) met in Myitgyina, Kachin state's capital, for the nationwide ceasefire talks, while the final round, which was the 9th, was held in Yangon in August.