The Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) led by General Secretary Hkun Hseng had left the Wanhai headquarters yesterday to attend a meeting with the government’s  Union Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC) in Naypyitaw, according to Wanhai sources.

“We were putting up at Lashio last evening”, one member of the delegation said. “Today we are off to Naypyitaw.”

U Thein Zaw, a vice chairman of the UPWC, is expected to lead the government delegation.

Both are to discuss the proposal made by U Thein Zaw on 18 October on the formation of a joint committee to oversee peace and development in areas west of the Salween. Both armies have already fought at least 6 campaigns since the preliminary ceasefire was signed on 28 January 2012.

Meanwhile more troops from the Burma Army are reportedly coming to areas around Wanhai, Kehsi township, Loilem district, Southern Shan State.

Burma Army units, despite the ceasefire, are under standing order that territorial clearance and territorial control continue, according to a document seized by the SSPP/SSA.