NUCC and NUG Release Joint Statement Firmly Rejecting Pretense Discussion
The National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC) and the National Unity Government (NUG) jointly issued a joint statement on October 1 that the terrorist military junta’s “Invitation to political problem solving through political means" was an attempt to divide the Ethnic Resistance Organizations (EROs) and People’s Defense Forces (PDF) and to gain a positive international image. It was just a mere pretense, so they categorically rejected it.
The statement was issued by the NUCC and NUG Joint Working Committee on Anti-Sham Election. It also warned that the successive military regimes used various topics on a division such as exchanging weapons and peace, and giving up the armed path and entering the legal framework.
It is stated in the joint statement that the terrorist military junta has declared the revolutionary forces as a terrorist group, also the military junta continued bombing and destroying the towns and villages, arresting people unjustly, and killing, so it was illogical to call for a political problem solving through political means.
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