By Lun Min Mang ,
14 January 2016
Participants hold discussions at the Union Peace Conference in Nay Pyi Taw on 13 January 2016 (photo credit: Aung Khant, The Myanmar Times)
<p><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">Ethnic armed groups that
signed up to the nationwide ceasefire pact raised their demands for
constitutional reform yesterday as the Union Peace Conference in Nay Pyi Taw
tackled the thorny issue of power sharing in a future federal state. </span><span style="line-height: 20.4px;">Ethnic leaders, speaking
on the second day of the conference, said Myanmar would have difficulties in
achieving a genuine federal union without changes to the 2008 constitution
drawn up by the former military junta.</span></p>
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<p>Discussions on economic
reform featured debate over the controversial issue of sharing tax revenues
between states and the central government.</p>
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