YANGON, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's second meeting of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference scheduled for Feb. 28 has been postponed to late March, Deputy Director General of the Ministry of the President Office U Zaw Htay told Xinhua Tuesday.
The delay for holding the conference is due to the fact that ongoing political dialogue is not yet finished, U Zaw Htay said.
A total of 700 representatives are still estimated to take part in the five-day conference.
U Zaw Htay encourages groups that have not signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) to join the signing in the conference.
State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, who is also chairperson of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC), emphasized the importance of the UPDJC in Myanmar's peace process and highlighted that the organization is neither working for the National League for Democracy (NLD) nor the government but for the emergence of the union.
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