In an interview with DW at the Munich Security Conference, the opposition National Unity Government's foreign minister said that the Myanmar junta lacks legitimacy to hold elections.
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00:00First thing is that military junta doesn't have the right to convene, right to hold the
00:13elections.
00:14And another thing is like military junta is losing on the ground.
00:20There is more than around the 70% of the territory, the revolutionary control area.
00:29How can they do?
00:30How can they hold the election in this circumstance?
00:33Another thing is legitimacy.
00:34They don't have the legitimacy to hold the election.
00:40Actually the people, the voters against military rules and of course military hold elections.
00:50The revolutionary forces are fighting together with NUG.
00:54NUG is not alone actually.
00:56NUG plus ethnic organizations, they are also fighting for their self-determinations.
01:02At the same time that is why we have the political dialogue among different stakeholders with
01:07different ethnic groups for the future federal union.
01:10So in this regard politically we are on the same page even though we are fighting on different
01:16territory but our common enemy is very clearly a military junta.
01:22Actually I'm not agree on that because protection of civilians is of course our responsibility.
01:29So that is why we are providing the assistance for the civilian protection.
01:34But the thing is that we need to think reversely because the military junta indiscriminately
01:39attack the people like not just only the military post of the NUG and revolutionary forces.
01:47They are attacking civilians.
01:49So the thing is like we are not able to, it is not about our capacity not to protect
01:56the civilian.
01:57They don't have the rules and they don't have military code of conduct.
02:01They don't have the ethic.
02:03So that is why because of the military junta and discrimination they are not fighting against
02:10military to military.
02:11They are fighting against their own civilian.
02:13In terms of the NUG we have the program to take actions for this accountability who committed
02:25that kind of crimes.
02:27We have the normal tolerance on that.
02:29We have the mechanism to address that issue.
02:37The first decision about the Myanmar is still emergency agenda for the U.S. national security.
02:44It is very specific country.
02:46But in terms of the U.S. A&E it is a worldwide effort.
02:49So in this regard even though NUG doesn't have a directly support or effort from that
02:55aid, U.S. aid, but indirectly effort for those who are living across the borders or humanitarian
03:03assistance.
03:05Recently I have noticed that in the scene there was a ceremony because of the U.S. A&E
03:11cuts support so the human suffering is still happening.
03:16So in this regard I think Trump administration will consider about that.