"Ethnic armed groups concluded the Mai Ja Yang summit over the weekend on an ambivalent note, saying they would decide whether to attend the cornerstone of the new administration?s peace plan, the 21st-century Panglong Conference, only after determining how all-inclusive the conference will be...Officials from the ethnic armed groups that attended the summit said they would call on the government to include all groups in the Panglong Conference. Inclusivity was also a major sticking point in last year?s so-called nationwide ceasefire agreement, with armed groups currently fighting with the Tatmadaw and those without a standing army not invited into the process by the government of then-president U Thein Sein..."