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Ethnic leader: USDP anti-amendment speech a spanner in the works

NEWS - SHAN HERALD Recent speech made by the military proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) General Secretary ex-major general Htay Oo will only serve as another fly in the ointment of the ongoing ceasefire talks of Naypyitaw led by U Aung Min and U Aung Thaung, said Hkun Okker, Joint General Secretary of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC). Htay Oo (Photo: AP) He had reportedly said the constitution, which took 15 years to write, should not be amended. Vice President #2 Dr Sai Mawk Kham, in his Independence Day address on 4 January, admitted that the said charter was written by the Tatmadaw (Armed Forces). U Aung Min, Minister for Railway Transportation, and known to some friends and foes alike as “Minister Without Borders” for his cross-border trips to hold talks with the armed opposition movements, is currently seeking a fresh round of talks with at least 6 border based groups. They include Forum for Democracy in Burma (FDB), All Burma St