Yangon - Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday called on the army and ethnic insurgents to end ongoing civil conflicts in her first direct letter to the country's new president.
Suu Kyi, who held her first talks with a minister in the new government on Monday, said reconciliation between state forces and armed ethnic minority rebel groups could not be achieved by “military means”.
“I would like to earnestly call for an immediate ceasefire and the peaceful resolution of the conflicts for the benefit of all ethnicities in the Union of Myanmar,” she said in the letter, also addressed to ethnic groups. - Sapa-AFP