General Yawd Serk, Chairman of the RestorationCouncil of Shan State (RCSS), said that the past 7 years have beenwasted due to the inability to implement the NCA contract. This was said by RCSS ChairmanGeneral Yawd Serk in a meeting with the National Peace Talks Team held at the National Unity andPeace Restoration Coordination Committee in Nay Pyi Taw on January 24.

“ It has been more than 7 years since we signed theNCA contract, but there has been no political development,” said General Yew Sis.” we have notbeen able to implement the NCA contract in practice, so we have wasted a lot of time in thelast 7 years,” he said.

The Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) was signedby 8 ethnic armed organizations on October 15, 2015.On October 15, 2018, thethree-year anniversary of the NCA, 2 more ethnic armed groups joinedand signed, bringing the number of signatory groups to 10.

General Yew Sis concluded, “ if the peace process isto continue in the future, we must learn from the mistakes of thepast.”

In spite of the miserable record of the Military-led NCA process ,there is no indication that General Yawd Serk isthinking of holding a dialogue with the other major EAOs – the KNU/KNLA. KIA that have rejectedthe junta’s peace process, and have sided with the revolutionarymovement to end the 2008 constitution.

Shan analyst Sai Wansai considered it strange thatRCSS statement that called for a new Panglong Peace agreement in 2022 “ failed tomention the ongoing war ,the NUG and the EAOs engaged in a revolutionagainst the military junta, with precisely the objective of implementing a new version of thePanglong Agreement.