The Official Version of the Statement
The Third Ethnic Nationality Seminar
(1)
The Third
Ethnic Nationality Seminar was successfully held from
(2)
The Ethnic
Nationalities Solidarity and Cooperation Committee (ENSCC) submitted its report
covering two years of its activities and the various alliances, parties and
organizations submitted papers expressing views and opinions on the Tripartite
Dialogue and the Solidarity of the Ethnic Nationalities.
(3)
The Seminar
agreed to firmly uphold the aims and objects of agreement reached at the First
Ethnic Nationality Seminar at “Mae-the-raw-ta” in
1997, being the resolution of political problems of the Union of Burma through
tripartite dialogue and the establishment of a true Federal Union.
(4)
The Seminar
observed that the SPDC’s 7-stage “road map” and the
attempt to reconvene its National
Convention, temporarily suspended in 1996, would not lead to
democratization and establishment of a federal union but only sustain a
military dictatorship in the country.
(5)
For peace
in the country, the flourishing of democracy, the establishment of a federal system,
and the speedy and timely emergence of democratic transition, the ethnic
nationalities will launch the “Rebuilding the Union of Burma” initiative
consisting of the following points.
(a)
To hold, at
the earliest date, the tripartite dialogue, as called for by the UN resolutions
annually since 1994;
(b)
To form an
interim government comprising of representatives, proportionally, of the SPDC, the NLD and other political parties, victorious in the
1990 elections, and the ethnic nationalities, based on the agreement arrived at
the tripartite dialogue;
(c)
The interim
government is to convene a legitimate “National Convention”;
(d)
To form
various commissions, with approval of the National Convention, to draft
constitutions of the Federal Union and the constituent States;
(e)
To hold
national referendum for adoption of the Federal Constitution and to hold
referendum in various constituent States for adoption of respective State
Constitutions;
(f)
To hold
elections at national level and state level for the formation of Federal
government and State governments in various States in accordance with the newly
adopted Federal and respective State Constitutions;
(g)
Subsequent
to the elections, the Federal and State parliaments (legislatures) are to be
convened and the respective election-winning parties are to form the Federal
and various State governments;
(6)
In addition
to welcoming and supporting involvement of the international community,
including the UN, in the affairs of
(7)
In
accordance with requirement of the political situation of
(8)
Since
complete solution to protracted and multifarious problems facing the Union of
Burma, and lasting peace and stability, can be gained only through the
tripartite dialogue process demanded by the UN resolutions, this Seminar calls
upon the SPDC to unconditionally cease all military offensives against the
ethnic nationalities, declare a nationwide cease-fire, release all political
prisoners, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and hold tripartite dialogue at the
earliest date.
We, the ethnic
Nationalities, solemnly urge the democratic and ethnic forces, at home and
abroad, for unanimously support and to make concerted effort to realize the
aspirations of the people of the Union of Burma.
Media contact
(1)
Rimond Htoo
Tel: 053-611 573
Cel: 01-884 5441
Email: <[email protected]>
(2)
Hkun Okker
Tel:
053-620 260
Cel:
01-950 2158
Email: <[email protected]>
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