Min Aung Hlaing reports on his first 100-days since inauguration as Myanmar president

In his address to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on Friday to mark his first 100 days since he was inaugurated as Myanmar’s president on April 10, regime leader Min Aung Hlaing stated that his pro-military administration has met with ​a total of 13 ethnic armed groups to discuss peace since the military coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) administration on Feb. 1, 2021. “The government has, since assuming office, accelerated the implementation of its two priority objectives: ensuring national peace and stability and promoting the country’s development.” Min Aung Hlaing said in his speech to both houses of parliament on July 31. His administration is led by the military-proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), which took office after the regime’s highly controversial 2025-26 elections that ended on Jan. 25. The polls were labeled a “sham” by the U.N. and several western countries. The USDP was defeated by the NLD party in the two previous elections, deemed “free and fair” by international observers, in 2020 and 2015. The NLD party was officially dissolved by the regime’s Union Election Commission (UEC) in 2023 for not re-registering post-coup. Most of the NLD’s senior officials were jailed in 2021 with Aung San Suu Kyi being held incommunicado over the last five years. On April 20, Min Aung Hlaing launched his “100-day plan” to invite ethnic armed groups that haven’t signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), including those who withdrew from it following the 2021 coup, to engage in dialogue ⁠and negotiations with his administration. At least 303 people have been killed and 668 people have been injured by 762 aerial attacks, including airstrikes, as well as drone, paramotor and gyrocopter attacks since April 20, according to DVB data. Two key ethnic armed groups based along the borders of Thailand and India, the Karen National Union (KNU) and the Chin National Front (CNF), rejected any dialogue with Min Aung Hlaing’s regime. The two groups are founding members of Myanmar’s premier resistance coalition, the Steering Committee for the Emergence of a Federal Democratic Union (SCEF). The SCEF—composed of the National Unity Government (NUG), Committee Representing Pyithu Hluttaw (CRPH), Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), Karen National Progressive Party (KNPP), KNU and CNF—had rejected the peace invitation, dismissing it as a “tactic of military coercion and psychological warfare.” However, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) met with the regime’s National Solidarity and Peacemaking Negotiation Committee (NSPNC) in Naypyidaw on July 19, where they requested recognition of an autonomous “Ta’ang State.” Referring to the regional bloc’s peace plan for Myanmar—the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Five Point Consensus—Min Aung Hlaing stated that it wasn’t the “consensus” of all member states. “I’ve made myself clear that we’d adopt the Five Point Consensus if it’s beneficial for our people,” he told parliament on July 31. The Five Point Consensus outlines an end to all forms of violence in Myanmar, the release of all political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as inclusive dialogue among all stakeholders to the crisis since the 2021 coup. On July 9, pro-military parliamentarians in Myanmar rejected the ASEAN Five Point Consensus, stating that the bloc’s peace plan contradicts the long-standing principle of non-interference in the affairs of member states. Min Aung Hlaing is scheduled to meet with Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul this week during his “state visit” to Bangkok Aug. 6-7. This will be the regime leader’s second visit to an ASEAN member state since his inauguration.