Peace talks between the government and the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) will resume early next month in Myitkyina, Mizzima reports. The technical teams from the two sides will meanwhile draft a ceasefire agreement that they hope will be signed at the Nov. 3 meeting, according to Hla Maung Shwe, a Myanmar Peace Center spokesperson. A seven-point preliminary peace agreement between the ethnic Kachin rebel group and the government’s peace negotiating team was signed on Oct. 10, but the deal was not a full ceasefire. The government has said it hopes to sign a ceasefire with the KIO, as well as a “nationwide ceasefire” with Burma’s many ethnic armed groups, this year.
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