Vice President of the KIO (Kachin Independence Organization) Dr. Tujar spoke to DVB on Oct 1, 2005, regarding with the report of President Vaclav Havel and Bishop Desmond Tutu, calling the UN Security Council to act in Burma, as follow.

“We want and support it as a constructive proposal. It encourages the true dialogue, which we always want. The KIO’s national policy is to solve the problem by peaceful mean. The broader we can discuss the better. That will be great, if the United Nations can help that dialogue happens. It is important to be practical. That will be benefit for all if the dialogue happens; otherwise, we will not be reaching anywhere.”

Another cease-fire group, Mon New State Party (MNSP)’s General Secretary Naing Han Thar also spoke to DVB about the party’s opinion on the report of President Havel and Bishop Tutu as follow.

“The MNSP support the call of President Havel and Bishop Tutu, asking the UN Security Council to act in Burma. There will be better if the UN has better role to involve in Burma. We supported when the UN’s Special Envoy Razali Ismail came in and tried to facilitate the dialogue. As Razali couldn’t come again, we welcome this proposal as another attempt to facilitate the dialogue under the supervision of the United Nations. We welcome and accept it. As we have lack of trust among us, involvement and strong participation of the United Nations in Burma will be better. We believe that the United Nations can implement the tri-partite dialogue which the UN General Assembly’s resolutions suggested. There are a lot of precedence that many conflicts around the world were solved with the help of the UN. We welcome it.”

[Note: KIO and MNSP are two largest major ethnic armed resistance groups, which entered to the cease-fire agreement with the Burmese military regime since 1989. This is an unofficial translation from DVB Broadcast in Burmese on Oct 1, 2005.]