The Mon cease-fire armed group, the New Mon State Party (NMSP) has decided to join the military government’s National Convention as an observer yet again, at it’s the party’s Central Committee meeting.

It also welcomed the United Nations Security Council’s move to put the Burma issue on its permanent agenda.

The NMSP is the strongest among Mon armed groups and arrived at a cease-fire agreement in 1995 after more than four decades of fighting successive military governments.

The NMSP spokesman, Nai Aye Mon said “The best way to solve our country’s problems would have been within the country. But, with the problem still not solved we welcome the United Nations involvement in resolving the political stalemate. We want to solve it peacefully,” he added.

The NMSP held a four-day meeting from September 23 and decided to welcome the UNSC move while a Karen cease-fire group, Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) has gone against the UNSC stance.

The NMSP will send three senior leaders to observe the national convention and it will be led by Nai Thin Hla a former party representative.

In the beginning of the month, the NMSP had sought the views of the Mon people on whether it should attend the NC or not. Recently the Overseas Mon Coordinating Committee requested NMSP not to attend the NC.

The NMSP has also demanded that the military government change some parts of the drafted constitution at the NC. It raised the demand with 12 other ethnic armed groups in 2004. The NMSP led the demand but it was ignored.