Sagaing Forum's First-Anniversary Report to the Public
On June 2, the Forum Formation Group released the Sagaing Forum's first-anniversary report to the public, which aims toward the emergence of a regional-level body. The report also sets out its positions and next steps on political, military, alliance relations, ethnic and displaced people's affairs.
The report also states that, based on politically equal collective leadership, the Sagaing Federal Council (Forerunner) is an organization that does not in principle oppose the formation of a Bamar (Myanmar) state in building a future federal democratic union.
The Forum Formation Group is made up of one working committee, four working groups, three support groups and one forum force. The forum force consists of Sagaing-based revolutionary forces that believe in and support the Sagaing Forum and its revolutionary path.
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