SAC Vice Chairman Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win addresses first coordination meeting of Central Committee for Organizing 75th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Independence Day 2023
NAY PYI TAW October 19
The first coordination meet-ing of the Central Committee for Organizing the 75th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Independence Day 2023 took place at the meeting hall of the Union Government’s office in Nay Pyi Taw at 2 pm today, addressed by Chairman of the Central Committee Vice Chairman of the State Administration Council Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win.
The meeting was attended by Central Committee members Union Ministers, the chairman of Nay Pyi Taw Council, the Chief of the General Staff (Army, Navy and Air), the Nay Pyi Taw Command commander, deputy ministers, senior military officers from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Army) and officials while other Central Committee members attended it via video conferen-cing.
Addressing the meeting, the Vice-Senior General said the first meeting was held to make preparations for holding the diamond jubilee of Independence Day. Measures must be taken to celebrate it at a natio-nal level and on a grand scale.
Looking back to history, although there have been successive governments since Myan-mar regained independence on 4 January 1948, the country still has to suffer an ill legacy of internal instability due to different political, racial and religious ideologies resulting from the colonialists’ divideand-rule policy adopted during the pre-independence period.
To be able to discard such different ideologies and seek common ground through coo-peration, the SAC, since its duty assumption, formed the Natio-nal Solidarity and Peacemak-ing Central Committee, Work Committee and Coordination Committee and invited both NCA signatories and non-signatories of the ethnic armed organizations in April 2021. At the peace negotiation table,
the Prime Minister himself had received individual orga-nizations and discussed policy issues while the work coordination teams had held open bilateral discussions to seek solutions. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is overseeing the measures to adopt and imple-ment two national tasks—na-tional prosperity and food security. The aim is not only to understand and accept the different ideologies and discard such differences but also to build a Union based on multi-party democracy and federalism. Therefore, in celebrating the 75th Anniversary Indepen-dence Day, measures must be taken in accord with the abovementioned policies.
The country's independence was not easily won and obtai-ned. For more than a hundred years from the period of losing independence to the period of regaining independence, our ethnic brothers and sisters paid a lot of lives, blood and sweat. Although the independence may be lost in a day or a morn-ing, a lot of resources have been sacrificed to regain independence. The celebration must be carried out in order to ensure that the efforts to regain independence are not forgotten and to maintain and strengthen the sovereignty gained. The belief and sentiments must be shaped and enshrined that the preservation of the country's independence and sovereignty is the responsibility of all Myanmar people, including the younger generation.
Similarly, during the period of independence, the country has not progressed as much as it should because of the instabili-ty and unrest that arose with independence. The situation where the country can enjoy development and prosperity only through peace and stabi-lity, as well as the two national goals set by the Prime Minister today to bring about this change, and the multi-party democracy system that the entire people are shaping. They must also shape the construction of a union based on democracy and a federal system.
Therefore, the celebration will be carried out with five national objectives. The five national objectives are the strengthening of a disciplined multi-party democracy system, the construction of a union based on democracy and fe-deralism, doing our best to ensure the country's prosperity and food security as national goals, building a better country and socio-economic life accor-ding to the slogan "Keep moving forward to achieve our goal" with the national interest in mind, efforts to strengthen national unity and union peace, the successful holding of a free and fair multi-party democracy general election and the establishment of an electoral system in which all ethnic groups can have proportional represen-tation.
The central committee has been formed to hold the cele-bration in a grand and lively manner in accordance with the national level. Further, the working committee and the necessary sub-committees must be formed and the acti-vities must be coordinated and managed in details after today's meeting.
While undergoing preparation for the ceremony to mark the Diamond Jubilee Indepen-dence Day and during the ceremony, measures on COVID-19 prevention and control are to be systematically taken. In respect of the security sector, assessments must be made from all sides and every point of view to ensure 100 percent security and not to suffer any breach.
As this is a rare chance for the people who will participate in the Diamond Jubilee Inde-pendence Day ceremony, those people are to be given assign-ments in a persuasive way so that they will feel honoured to have such a chance. Ministries and members of region and state governments are to go that way too. All the officials are urged to work all together to be able to successfully hold the Diamond Jubilee Indepen-dence Day Ceremony.
Afterwards, members of the Leading Organizing Committee presented sector-wise reports on formation of the committee to hold the Diamond Jubilee Independence Day Ceremony and respective working com-mittees, preparations and tasks to be done further.
Then, the Secretary of the Leading Organizing Commi-ttee obtained the confirmation on forming the committee to hold the Diamond Jubilee Independence Day Ceremony and other working committees.
The Vice-Senior General made coordination on the reports and gave necessary instructions.