By MPA
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The Pa-O National Federal Council (PNFC) has flatly rejected the Myanmar military junta’s latest invitation to hold peace talks, declaring that any attempts to broker stability with the ruling military council are “completely impossible” without binding international mediation and structured global oversight.
The decisive diplomatic pushback was disclosed during an exclusive interview in Chiang Mai, Thailand, between PNFC Chairman Khon Myint Tun and Japan’s Kyodo News agency, later cross-verified via an official PNFC policy statement released late Friday.
“There is absolutely no remaining hope for constructing a sustainable peace with this military council,” Chairman Khon Myint Tun told Kyodo News strictly. “It has reached a point where it is a total impossibility.”
The targeted refusal by the Pa-O leadership echoes a broader, unified stance held by the country’s primary anti-junta revolutionary alliances, who have collectively boycotted the regime’s upcoming peace overtures. The military council had previously issued a top-down administrative directive demanding that all armed resistance factions register and participate in state-sponsored peace talks by the absolute deadline of the end of July.
Chairman Khon Myint Tun underscored that for any meaningful domestic peace architecture to materialize, independent international intervention—specifically involving democratic governments like Japan—is non-negotiable. He stressed that global actors must serve as neutral mediators and provide ironclad, long-term monitoring mechanisms to guarantee that any future commitments are legally and physically protected.
The PNFC chief highlighted that while the military council is frantically deploying the rhetoric of “handing over state power back to civilians” to secure unearned international legitimacy for its administrative organs, the realities on the ground present a starkly different trajectory. Across the mainland, military security columns continue to execute sweeping campaigns of terror, dropping unprovoked air munitions on non-combatants as the multi-front civil war accelerates relentlessly.
The Pa-O leader provided a historical autopsy of the regime’s pattern of broken treaties, pointing directly to the collapse of the 2015 Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), a multi-party peace accord originally signed by select ethnic armies and the state.
Khon Myint Tun noted that while the NCA had successfully fostered institutional negotiation channels and bilateral consensus frameworks between ethnic nationalities and the armed forces for years, the military leadership unilaterally tore up the historic peace treaty by executing the illegal February 2021 coup.
“By forcibly overthrowing the democratic mandate and turning its heavy weaponry on the sovereign populace, the military itself systematically demolished the constitutional legitimacy of the NCA,” the Chairman added.
Independent geopolitical analysts monitor that the junta’s end-of-July peace deadline is a desperate diplomatic stunt aimed at splitting the unyielding military cohesion of the pro-democracy resistance. As the regime sustains critical battlefield attrition and faces massive economic disintegration across Upper Myanmar, regional commanders are attempting to revive defunct ceasefire models to buy operational breathing room.
However, by maintaining an unyielding front alongside the National Unity Government (NUG) and allied Ethnic Resistance Organizations (EROs), independent groups like the PNFC are reinforcing the strategy that no sustainable peace framework can be constructed by treating an isolated military cartel as a legitimate state authority.
