China sends team to Myanmar to monitor ceasefire, foreign ministry says

Record ID: 2003961

  • Title: China sends team to Myanmar to monitor ceasefire, foreign ministry says
  • Date: 22nd April 2025
  • Summary: BEIJING, CHINA (APRIL 22, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON GUO JIAKUN ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE JOURNALISTS SEATED (SOUNDBITE) (Mandarin) CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON, GUO JIAKUN, SAYING: "China respects Myanmar’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and, based on the wishes and demands of all relevant parties in Mya
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  • Keywords: China Kokang Kunming Lashio Myanmar ceasefire foreign ministry monitoring team peace talk
  • Location: BEIJING, CHINA
  • City: BEIJING, CHINA
  • Country: China
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA001827122042025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: China has recently sent a team to Myanmar to monitor a ceasefire it brokered between the country's ruling military and a rebel group, China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday (April 22), signalling its deepening involvement in an expanding civil war.
    Myanmar has been in turmoil since 2021 when its powerful military deposed an elected civilian government, sparking a nationwide protest movement that has morphed into an armed rebellion against the junta.
    The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), mainly made up of ethnic Chinese, last year seized control of a major military headquarters in Lashio near the border with China, as part of rebel offensives in the country that have wrested territory out of the junta's hands.
    In January, following talks between the junta and the MNDAA in China's Kunming, Beijing said the warring sides had signed a formal agreement for a ceasefire.
    "The two parties appreciate and thank China for its constructive role in safeguarding peace and stability in northern Myanmar," Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told a regular press conference.
    "Going forward, China will continue to push forward the Kunming peace talks."
    (Production: Wang Shubing, Xiaoyu Yin)
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