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The three groups had met with a mediator from China to discuss reducing border conflict.

When it comes to the answer, there is both cause for hope and also worried concern, as the answer is intertwined with the National Unity Government (NUG) and its relations with the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAO), and the cold, hard fact that many resistance groups or People’s Defence Forces (PDF) are poorly armed, and experimenting with home-made rifles and improvised explosive devices (IED).

Myanmar’s military regime has a plan for trying to establish its governing legitimacy next year: In August of 2023, the dictatorship, which overthrew a democratically elected government in early 2021, intends to hold sham elections. A critical piece of this strategy involves maneuvering Myanmar’s welter of small ethnic parties into taking part in the electoral process. Nowhere are the risks and uncertainties inherent in the generals’ plan more evident than in poor but economically strategic Rakhine State on Myanmar’s western border with Bangladesh and India.

Prak Sokhonn again asks the junta to meet with the NLD chief despite an earlier rejection.

Foreign minister Prak Sokhonn, in his capacity as the ASEAN special envoy on Myanmar, on June 30 delivered two million Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by China, through the bloc, to the crisis-hit country, stressing that humanitarian assistance should not be curtailed due to politics or race.